Or say you're in a room   And there's a beautiful fire   And you're looking out the window   (At the snow and the winter streets below)   But your eyes keep returning to the fire      This is what I'm thinking   The reason your eyes keep returning to the fire   Is because it divides your sight   Into left and right, and dark and light and dark   Like a fine dividing wire      Here's another thing   That I noticed last night   When he kissed me over there   He usually kissed me over here, too      I must have known it in my heart   And with my inner sense of art   Because when I kiss him over there   I never kiss him over here      It's the way of the world   People do it everywhere   If you're going to do it over here   Then usually they do it over there too      Symmetry is the way things have to be   Symmetry is the way things have to be      Or say you're at a table   And you have your forks and knives   Do you move them around   'Til you get them just right?   (This is while you're talking to someone)      Or you work in a nightclub   And you notice that   Even though you try to seat everyone on one side of the room   They always spread themselves out evenly from this side to that   Like atoms in a model      It's the way of the world   People do it everywhere   If you're going to do it over here   Then usually they do it over there too      Symmetry is the way things have to be   Symmetry is the way things have to be      Or say you're in an air show   And you're flying with two other pilots   And you want to do it right   Because you like to do it right      And one guy is flying   At the tip of your left wing   And the other guy's off   Doing his own thing   Would it bother you?   It bothers me      It's the way of the world   People do it everywhere   If you're going to do it over here   Then usually they do it over there too      Symmetry is the way things have to be   Symmetry is the way things have to be