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,
Corner curt mindless
Morally is bankrupt
Here fitting nicely
Staying as it once was
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
Where taken lightly
Clouded as light serene
Flame throwing tarot
All in a line descends
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
A serious inability to cease the faction
A long door closing in the face react
Toward a lonely lesson offering retraction
A memory hanging on now hung by the neck
It's overly twisted
Rape and remains of waste
In devious flavors
Direct in defiling shame
When playing with fire
And burnt out desire
A kettle of blackness
Already fell into
A pit of our own device
A serious disability devout the system
A sharp wedge dripping through the back up ahead
Toward one vicious world wide assumption
A forced upon dictatorship the future's dead
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
Morally is bankrupt
Here fitting nicely
Staying as it once was
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
Where taken lightly
Clouded as light serene
Flame throwing tarot
All in a line descends
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
A serious inability to cease the faction
A long door closing in the face react
Toward a lonely lesson offering retraction
A memory hanging on now hung by the neck
It's overly twisted
Rape and remains of waste
In devious flavors
Direct in defiling shame
When playing with fire
And burnt out desire
A kettle of blackness
Already fell into
A pit of our own device
A serious disability devout the system
A sharp wedge dripping through the back up ahead
Toward one vicious world wide assumption
A forced upon dictatorship the future's dead
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
Lyrics submitted by jt
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