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N-sub Ulysses Lyrics
I'm not talking about a Beatle's song,
written 100 years before I was born.
100 flowers bloom, 100 schools of thought contend,
c'mon baby, let's hang around,
they're talking about the round and round,
but who's got the real anti-parent culture sound?
written 100 years before I was born.
100 flowers bloom, 100 schools of thought contend,
c'mon baby, let's hang around,
they're talking about the round and round,
but who's got the real anti-parent culture sound?
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The recording of this song on Plays Pretty for Baby begins with a quote of some translations of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra": "To you the bold and foolish lambs. To you who are intoxicated with riddles, let's go. Who take pleasure in twilight. Whose souls are lured by noise to every treacherous abyss. For you do not feel for a rope like cowards, and where you can guess you hate to calculate. And where others would poison, you dismember."
man they just get better and better....take heed all you parent hatas...dont hate annihilate...besides i love it when they say baby...
I'm glad somebody else caught the Nietzsche paraphrase in the opening monologue to this song. The actual passage comes from the section "The Vision and the Riddle" from "Zarathustra":
To you, the bold searchers, researchers, and whoever embarks with cunning sails on terrible seas - to you, drunk with riddles, glad of twilight, whose soul flutes lure astray to every whirlpool, because you do not want to grope along a thread with cowardly hand; and where you can guess, you hate to deduce - to you alone I tell the riddle that I saw, the vision of the loneliest.
That being said, this song exemplifies NoU's iconoclast attitude toward rock 'n' roll. While a great many bands during the early 90's were focusing their attention backwards (the "good old days" as your parents would say) and trying to recreate the sounds of the past, NoU were focused solely on the future of rock.