Symmetry (from Greek συμμετρεῖν symmetría "measure together") generally conveys two primary meanings. The first is an imprecise sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality and balance; such that it reflects beauty or perfection. The second meaning is a precise and well-defined concept of balance or "patterned self-similarity" that can be demonstrated or proved according to the rules of a formal system: by geometry, through physics or otherwise.
Although the meanings are distinguishable in some contexts, both meanings of "symmetry" are related and discussed in parallel.
The precise notions of symmetry have various measures and operational definitions. For example, symmetry may be observed
This article describes these notions of symmetry from four perspectives. The first is that of symmetry in geometry, which is the most familiar type of symmetry for many people. The second perspective is the more general meaning of symmetry in mathematics as a whole. The third perspective describes symmetry as it relates to science and technology. In this context, symmetries underlie some of the most profound results found in modern physics, including aspects of space and time. Finally, a fourth perspective discusses symmetry in the humanities, covering its rich and varied use in history, architecture, art, and religion.
I'm caught in the symmetry of your mind
But I'm not happier than you
Did I really see you or was it a dream
Dreaming that it was seamless
Not a trace of wrong words
That we have spoken
Little did we know
No bigotry no tears shed
Oh if only you'd try to be polite
Thinking you were right
Only to find that you're unkind
But ironically you will always be
Belle of the ball at least to me
I'm caught in the symmetry of your mind
But I'm not happier than you
But my words are frail not audible
They do not even convince me
Perhaps they are untrue
Truly with you the worst is always true
I gave you all the benefits of all the doubts I had
Never hoped to be as benign as me
Funny how you always get through
But ironically you will always be
Symmetry
Carbon calcium blood
Find your own disease
Excellent breeding left you without one
Try to be at ease
They're staring daggers at you
But you'll get your piece
You'll take them down one by one
Walk (x7)
Symmetry
Your infrastructure is planned
Time to cut designs
Every threads in place this time
Now you understand
The competition is stiff
Got the upper hand
Ready to strut your stuff
Walk (x7)
I would kill to have your face
I would kill to have your body
I would kill to have your skull
I would kill to have your skin
Breathless you pose burning with spite
Beauty is so crude contrite
Venom you bleed bile within
Knowing their fate architect sin
Twist and maneuver you've practiced your part
Starving and hacking you've created art
Painfully limping now this is your life
Take them all down now and raise up your knife
Breathless you pose burning with spite
Beauty is so crude contrite
Venom you bleed bile within
Knowing their fate architect sin (x2)
Years away for you to stay alive
Here is the way to do things wrong
I'll never know love the way I did before
Cause a shout from the past is all I get
And thats the way
A way to find the hurt you know
You know so well
And that's the way to bring us back to where we were
And now it seems
Thats the plan for you and me
(A life of symmetry)
In your eyes a night a night I see
You caving for the ones who know
About your wish for life that never dies
And that only darkness gets you through
And that's the way
A way to find the hurt you know
You know so well
And that's the way to bring us back to where we were
And now it seems
That's the plan for you and me
That's the path it goes to you
I leave my dreams to you
That's the path it burns right through
That was love in me still
Stop this, you're never going to find it
When you complicate, you are left behind but
Longing, steals away the night
And steps away from eyes that are always searching
This time, you can feel his voice
And He's never going to stop until it sinks in deeply
Falling, consecrated lies
And you're letting go with time cause you're through with keeping
It's so real, never gonna stop till you want it,
Want it
It's so real, never gonna stop
Cause we're moving with a symmetry
And we're crashing like the waves in the sea
And we're moving to your heart this time
Release
Crashing, feel the way we move
Open up your eyes to the things around you
Haunting, take away the tears
Cause you know that your heart is so close to
Beating
This time, you can feel his voice
And He's never gonna stop until it sinks in deeply
Falling, consecrated lies
And you're letting go with time cause you're through with keeping
It's so real
Intellect incision
Biogenetic implant
Opportunity misgiven
No time to react
Selective resistance redefines life
Symmetric boundaries are undefined
Spiritual concepts turn back time
Arcane precision now unwinds
Intellect incision
Biogenetic implant
How would we have known we would wash away. It's two solemn searching souls together to the sea. Amongst the creatures underneath the deepening. Hold it to the flame burning you and me.
Sacrifice the talk and praise the eyes and all. Wonder and amazement. Notice every star floating in the arms of symmetry so ageless.
How would we have known we would wash away. It's two solemn searching souls together to the sea. Among the mountains underneath the deepening. Rising to the sun but in the shadows all along.
Sacrifice the talk and live for holding on, to everything sacred. Surrounded by the mouths of broken oars and trouts covering the surface.
Sacrifice the talk and cherish what we told, come what may surround us. The drift with clutching arms in a world so ever dark, wonder what that took us.
How would we have known we would wash away. It's two solemn searching souls together to the sea. Amongst the creatures underneath the deepening. Hold it to the flame burning you and me.
So would you tell me now
Are life and death a symmetry
Balanced on scales
Neither side chosen
And could these moments
Balance out against eternity
Promise inferred
Words never spoken
My life is burning
Could you read by the light
Letters I¹ve written
Never to follow
Poets and madmen
All defy reason
Still in my mind I know
I want to live my life with you
Dying hard
Play my whole hand until it¹s through
Dying hard
And in your arctic night
You contemplate eternity
Walking on water
Frozen in silence
And in that moment would you
Turn around and turn to me
Laughing away night¹s darker tyrants
My life is burning
Could you read by the light
Letters I¹ve written
Never to follow
Poets and madmen
All defy reason
Still in my mind I know
I want to live my life with you
Dying hard
Play in my whole hand until it¹s through
Dying hard
Some nights I spend alone inside my head
But it¹s better than losing it
And if you want to turn your life around
It¹s your life you¹re choosing it
I want to spend my life with you
Dying hard
Play the whole hand until it¹s through
I stayed awake just long enough to see you.
Remember Winnipeg?
And feeling simpler back then?
I took a week off from my band and flew out.
It was a Saturday.
I saw you waiting by the plane.
I was always in a way just a long shot.
I was never in the clear of that.
I am lucky just to be a potential.
But I will always make a mess of that.
I traded symmetry for everything I loved.
I took my feelings out and I had told you I was done.
I know your mistakes, does it bother you
that I found where they stay?
Can I reach you yet?
I stood up so fast.
And I let you down, it was the first time
that I heard that sound.
It filled my head with the darkest shade of black.
And I met you there.
I realized then that I was just a little sad.
And I left you there.
I was always in a way just a long shot.
I was never in the clear of that.
I am lucky just to be a potential.
There's symmetry in the way you cut me straight in two.
Each side reflects the image of a crowd in an empty room.
You're a match that can't be lit.
Spark a flame, burn infinite.
You broke me like a mirror.
Seven years keep adding up.
Walk barefoot through the glass,
not a single cut.
Direction - I'm walking on fences.
It left me defenseless.
You broke me like a mirror.
Seven years keep adding up.
Walk barefoot through the glass,
not a single cut.
Balance - I'm losing it and the ground beneath does not exist.
You're a match that can't be lit. Spark a flame, burn infinite.
Balance - I'm losing it and the ground beneath does not exist.
You're the night to my day
And the left to my right
The blood to my veins
And the dark to my light
The stop to my start
And the constant beat in my heart
The sun to my moon
And the stars in my sky
The hot to my cold
And the black to my white
The rain to my thunderclouds
And the truth to my lies
So tell me what you what to see
Coz everything I want to be
Is there in your reflection
Shinning out right back at me
So love me in perfect symmetry
Be my everything
If you just love me in perfect symmetry
Only you can make me feel complete
In perfect symmetry
Be my everything
If you just love me in perfect symmetry
Only you can make me feel complete
So tell my your dreams and
I'll tell you all my fears
So ask me your questions
I'll tell you what you want to hear
Your the high to my low
And give to my take
The shadow I cast
And the echo I make
The calm to my storm
And the lesson in my mistakes
So tell me what you want to see
You're everything I want to be
Just love me in perfect symmetry
Be my everything
If you just love me in perfect symmetry
Only you can make me feel complete
So tell me your dreams
And I'll tell you my fears
So ask me your questions
When you're ready
We'll just take it steady
I know
Your eyes are heavy
And our palms are sweaty
And when the clock strikes nine
I'll be on my way
Forgot to schedule in advance
So i won't see you the next day.
Oh...oh...oh.. oh o oh o o
Oh...oh...oh.. oh o oh o o
Oh...
These hearts take flight
Try as you might
What is timing
What if these hearts
These hearts take flight
Try as you might
What is timing
What is February
Oh...oh...oh.. oh o oh o o
Oh...oh...oh.. oh o oh o o
Oh...
These hearts take flight
Try as you might
What is timing
What does that mean
These hearts take flight
Try as you might
What is sadness
There's a cliff
You don't know where it goes
I can tell her
That it goes down
Of all the excuses that you gave
Well, that's the worse I've ever heard
When you're just sick of me
Well tell me how the hell can I be cured
(Chorus)
And I think you might agree
When you said us, well you meant me
And I think you might agree
When you said us, well you meant
And all the corners in the square are filled
I circled round to flag you down
And hopes are high but mine runs dry
I'll whisper something but you better promise not to tell
(Chorus)
And I think you might agree
When you said us, well you meant me
And I think you might agree
When you said us, well you meant
So try to tell me
Why you'd want to be
More like you
And less like me
(Chorus)
And I think you might agree
When you said us, well you meant me
And I think you might agree