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Intro

Verse 1

Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician

 Every one of them is a splinter in my eye

 I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve

 I fear the Cantor Ternary Set

 The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry

 And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings

  (riff) 2x

On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

Verse 2

His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights

 Left him well equipped to face those demons down

 He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules

 He used his giant brain to turn the game around

 And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head

 A bulbous pointy form

 He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down

Pre Chorus

 Take a point called C in the complex plane

 Let Z1 be Z squared plus C

 And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C

 And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on

 If the series of Z's should always stay

Close to C and never trend away

 That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Chorus

 Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire

 You're a day-glo pterodactyl

 You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire

 You're one badass fucking fractal

 And you're just in time to save the day

Sweeping all our fears away

  (riff)4x

You can change the world in a tiny way

Verse 3

Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead

 Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale

 He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none

 And his geometry succeeds where others fail

 If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings

 From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home

Pre Chorus

 Take a point called C in the complex plane

 Let Z1 be Z squared plus C

 And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C

 And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on

 If the series of Z's should always stay

Close to C and never trend away

 That point is in the Mandelbrot Set

Final Chorus

 Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire

 You're a day-glo pterodactyl

 You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire

 You're one badass fucking fractal

 And you're just in time to save the day

Sweeping all our fears away

 You can change the world in a tiny way

Tag

 And you're just in time to save the day

Sweeping all our fears away

 You can change the world in a tiny way

 Go on change the world in a tiny way

 Come on change the world in a tiny way