Celebrating our mathematical thinking

Sweet parallel lines

  • This song is posted temporarily as a demo for Sesame Street, with the suggestion that they invite Neil Diamond to sing it along with Elmo!
  • Lyrics written by Victoria Smith

When I was young  
The lines in my life were lonely
Like parallel lines
along a city street
But now that I’ve grown
You’ve taken a chance
and shown me
A beautiful way that
they can meet

Lines, touching lines
At the poles
Touching North
Touching South

(Chorus)
Sweet parallel lines
(BUM, BUM, BUM!!)
Who’d have ever thought
they would?
I’d been resigned
(BUM, BUM, BUM!!)
To believe they never could
But – now - I

Look at the globe
And all of the spheres around me
How could it be I never knew?

The world isn’t flat
Lines that connect surround me
And parallel lines can do it too

Lines!  Touching lines!
Reaching out!
To the North!
And the South!

(Chorus)
Sweet parallel lines
(BUM, BUM, BUM!!)
Who’d have ever thought
they would?
I’d been resigned
(BUM, BUM, BUM!!)
To believe they never could

(Repeat & Fade Out…)