A Fortnight's Time - Maxïmo Park

In a fortnight’s time

You will be mine

I’ll bide my time

Your a paradime

Of woman kind

You could be mine

I distrust myself

But I’ve got to try

I catch your eye

Would you like to go on a date with me?

And I know, it’s old fashioned to say so Five times five equals twenty five

Don’t you know your times tables by now?

Don’t you know?

On the last train home

You want a phone

Instead you rub your eyes

The reflection is grim

In the windowpane

It’s the human stain

Do you have a drink

To erase the day

There’s another way

So Would you like to go on a date with me?

And I know, it’s old fashioned to say so Five times five equals twenty five

Don’t you know your times tables by now?

Don’t you know?

When it comes to girls I’m mostly hypothetical

If I list their names it’s purely alphabetical

When it comes to girls I’m truely theoretical

If I test a nerve it’s merely dialetical

And so Would you like to go on a date with me?

And I know, it’s old fashioned to say so Five times five equals twenty five

You should know your times tables by now

Don’t you know?

I said don’t you know?

In a fortnight’s time

You will be mine

You will be mine