Continuing the theme of songs about colors, mixing science, history, and psychology. This one is a bouncy kind of rock ditty, very silly. Part of my series based on "The Secret Lives of Color" by Kassie St. Clair.
Vocals to be added later. Just wanted to get this one on the board.
There are three types of colorblindness
Oh oh oh
Three ways to be colorblind
Oh oh oh
I’ve got colorblindness
Guess which one
Let’s have some fun
You see the world in 1 million colors
With your three color-sensitve cones
But I see 10% of what
Trichromats perceive
Oh, oh, oh
You gotta believe
I get no reprieve
There are three kinds of colorblindness
Oh oh oh
Three ways to be colorblind
You do the math, all you trichromats
Guess which one
Let’s have some fun
Number 1
Deuteranomaly
Green is a problem
But I can see red
Show me a grassy field
Full of big red poppies
I’m unimpressed
More is less
Number 2
Protanomaly
Purple looks like blue
Pink looks like gray
Red text on black background
The words are gone
Black is all you see
Number 3
Tritanomaly
Blue-yellow
Blue-green
Violet and red
My grandpa got it, runs in the family
Maybe when I’m older
Just before I’m dead
You see the world in 1 million colors
With your three color-sensitve cones
But I only see 10%
Of what trichromats perceive
Oh, oh, oh
You gotta believe
I get no reprieve
OUTRO
I’m not a monochrome
I can see more than black and white
I’m not a monochrome
No, no, no, no
@jacobeverettwallace Mar 2022
I love songs about color because they're often fun and vivid, and it's no less here. In this case, about colorblindness, which I don't recall ever seeing a lyric about before, so very well done! I like the "I'm not monochrome" outdo as well.