Standard Deviation

A chalkboard full of secrets, it was like some kind of code
 To tell the stars and planets how to fall and how to glow
 But when she turned to face the classroom
 There was chalk upon her nose
 Like the ghost of Madame Curie or a clown in women's clothes
 And the boys dismissed the work so quick, they laughed at her instead
 As just a girl who spilled some numbers from her head
 Late night in the library in the basement by herself
 Alone amongst the books again, at home between the shelves
 She was searching for some answers when she stumbled in the dark
 On a girl with colored pencils and black eyes like question marks
 And they said hello in stereo, then they both just stood and stared
 As a normal sort of silence filled the air
 The girl asked her what she studied and what she read so late at night
 The thoughts that filled her notebooks
 And the stars that filled her eyes
 But she said she couldn't tell her, she said she'd just get bored
 It was story told in numbers not a story told in words
 But the girl just laughed and leaned right back
 Said "Try me if you dare
 Cause a story's when there's something more to share"
 So she shrugged and her hands began to speak
 A dance of differentials and of poetry in Greek
 She solved for new dimensions and vibrations of the strings
 And from a single derivation all the worlds could rise to being
 She drew concentric circles with her finger in the air
 And they glowed where there were nodes
 Along the manifold they shared
 To be in perfect symmetry, joined in all degrees
 They touched in ways that no one else could see
 The girl's eyes lit with fire, like milk and kerosene
 It was the smartest thing she'd ever heard
 And the hottest thing she'd seen
 So she grabbed her by the brainstem and she threw her to the floor
 And they kissed like their equations had never balanced quite before
 Cause every lonesome thesis just describes the unobserved
 There's always one who'll fall upon the tail of every curve
 There's so many locks, so many doors, so many twisted keys
 Within the standard deviation from the mean