[Verse 1] Rain on the playground, puddles on the way Monday morning trying to survive the day Captain Cain reporting, cheese supplies are fine Commander Eli says the fleet is right on time Pencil periscopes and submarines at sea Everyone else saw puddles, we saw strategy School bell ringing, back into the class Trying not to laugh before the lesson starts [Pre-Chorus] Then a scrap of paper slid across the desk One small doodle turned into another quest A tiny mouse surrounded by the stars And suddenly our minds were very far [Chorus] "Less mice, more maths!" That's what their teacher said But every sum became an idea instead Less mice, more maths We honestly tried But the Mice-verse was multiplying inside Add them up Count them out Write the numbers down in rows One more mouse Then somehow Everybody knows Less mice, more maths That was the plan Then Black Hole Mouse appeared and then... [Bridge] Dark little doodle with a vortex tail Probably harmless, probably won't fail Maybe steal P-E trainers in the night Leave naked sphynx cats orbiting out of sight Maybe hoover crumbs from every floor Then come back looking round for more Maybe swallow playgrounds piece by piece Then burp and launch them into space with ease Just a joke Just a sketch Just a thought inside a book One more mouse For the Logbook That's all it took [Verse 2] Lunchtime benches, football nets nearby Cold wet trousers but we didn't mind Flying Mice and Dancing Mice and Weather Mice too Half of them were real and half were something new Cain was keeping totals in a maths-book chart Eli kept re-designing every part Some mice duplicated, some had disappeared Some exploded unexpectedly throughout the year [Pre-Chorus] Every list was getting way too long Every number somehow felt wrong Because whenever one idea appeared Twenty more were suddenly here [Chorus] "Less mice, more maths!" That's what their teacher said But every sum became an idea instead Less mice, more maths We honestly tried But the Miceverse was multiplying inside Add them up Count them out Write the numbers down in rows One more mouse Then somehow Everybody grows Less mice, more maths That was the plan And Black Hole Mouse was drawn by hand [Bridge] Dark little doodle with a swirling grin Nobody knew the trouble he'd be in Maybe snack on satellites for tea Maybe pull the moon into the sea Maybe sneeze a wormhole through the sky Maybe make our homework learn to fly Maybe turn a cheese wheel inside out Then forget what all the fuss was about Just a laugh Just a plan Just another mouse we'd made One more page One more name In the records we'd create [Breakdown] Mouse Logbook... Page number one... Favourite cheese?... Any — every one!... Weaknesses? Currently unknown... Warning? That's yet to be shown... Status? Still in thinking mode... Maybe we’ll build him tonight... [Final Chorus] Less mice, more maths That's what their teacher said But the universe was forming in our heads Less mice, more maths We tried our best But imagination never likes to rest Count them up Count them down Soon they're stretching out of sight One small doodle One small mouse One idea that was gonna change our lives Less mice, more maths We started with a page Now the Miceverse Is turning Into something much bigger than we'd made [Outro] A folded piece of paper A lunchtime sketch A joke between two friends Inside Eli and Cain's Official Mouse Logbook Black Hole Mouse was now written in...
