This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Colors and numbers
And there's so many never be seen
It's not the big picture
Nothing
The system that we call the
And the areas of avid color
Their origins are undiscovered
Don't go trying
To reveal
defying
Your intelligence it will always be impossible
No human will ever live to reveal
The undiscovered numbers and colors
No man will live to see colors
Colors and numbers
And there's so many never be seen
It's not the big picture
Nothing
The system that we call the
No man will ever live to see the undiscovered
Numbers and colors
And there's so many never be seen
It's not the big picture
Nothing
The system that we call the
And the areas of avid color
Their origins are undiscovered
Don't go trying
To reveal
defying
Your intelligence it will always be impossible
No human will ever live to reveal
The undiscovered numbers and colors
No man will live to see colors
Colors and numbers
And there's so many never be seen
It's not the big picture
Nothing
The system that we call the
No man will ever live to see the undiscovered
Numbers and colors
Lyrics submitted by oofus
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THIS IS NOT A CKY SONG! IT WAS DONE BY FOREIGN OBJECTS (CKY'S ORIGINAL NAME)
Great Foreign Objects song... strangely psycadelic yet still great fucking rock.
foreign objects is not cky's original name. it was band of deron and jess before cky. ckys original name was oil.
I love this song, but yeah...should be under Foreign Objects. And toallofyou is right - Foreign Objects never did anything that later became a CKY song, whereas a lot of Oil demos ended up on CKY Volume 1.