This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
To hear something new is
Hard and painful for the ears
We here the music of
Foreigners badly
I make the sounds that you can't understand
I make the sounds that you can't understand
Thus spake Me
My fingers, my voice
Slide into every orifice
My fingers, my voice
This is my critique
This is my subversion
This is my revolution
This is my revolution
I make the sounds that you can't understand
I make the sounds that you can't understand
You, I
Spake me
You, I own these words
This is friendship
That's what friends are for
You I own these words
I make the sounds you can't understand
I am Nietzsche
Thus spake me
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
1886 was a very good year
You and I know this to be true
Thus spake me
Hard and painful for the ears
We here the music of
Foreigners badly
I make the sounds that you can't understand
I make the sounds that you can't understand
Thus spake Me
My fingers, my voice
Slide into every orifice
My fingers, my voice
This is my critique
This is my subversion
This is my revolution
This is my revolution
I make the sounds that you can't understand
I make the sounds that you can't understand
You, I
Spake me
You, I own these words
This is friendship
That's what friends are for
You I own these words
I make the sounds you can't understand
I am Nietzsche
Thus spake me
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
I am Nietzsche
1886 was a very good year
You and I know this to be true
Thus spake me
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1886 was the year of the first labor day or May Day organized by communists, anarchists and socialists in an effort to push for the 8 hour work day. The slogan was "8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for what we will".
I mention this because the song after "I am Nietzche" is "Victory is Ours" on the record dance tonight revolution tomorrow. In the song "Victory is Ours" the lyrics end with the line "I am reborn red! red! red! red! red!" Rebirth is a central concept in Nietzsche's work.
I don't think we should overlook the context the record's song order provides (originally it was only released on vinyl).
With regard to name dropping. They knew they were doing it. And they wanted to make fun of themselves a little by applying a typical punk/metal/grind move of misspelling titles, to the names and authors of the work they were referencing. Their playfulness continues in The Panthers, the band the follows Orchid. Orchid's misspelled references also has the effect of underlining the song's meaning - that meaning is created by both the viewer/listener and author ("You (I) own these words"). It relies on the reader to look past was is written and focus on what is intended. It show participation, and forgiveness, possibly a desire for friendship to look for intended meanings.
BTW While a school doesn't tell everything about a person, they went to Amherst on of the best liberal arts colleges in the United States.
Thanks, that was very helpful and thought-provoking. <br /> <br /> I find that this song's message continues to be relevant. Sometimes, you have to be open to experiencing new, painful, foreign ideas to truly grow. Sometimes, to learn from the other is not easy; it is a struggle, requiring us to put aside our egos for a second and try to meet the other halfway. At my liberal arts college (not Amherst lol), they now teach us to write for the reader - to produce according to the tastes of the consumer. What happened to the give and take between the reader and the author? What happened to friendship?<br /> <br /> Btw, I also completely agree that when interpreting a work of art (and this song definitely qualifies as a work of art, no?) it is inimical to ignore the context, in this case the album's song order. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
wow, no one's commented, yet nietzche is so absorbing. this is an amazing song for both it's sound and words.
_4xeno, yes it is, but it's the way it's spelt on the record too (as I just checked.)
this is a brilliant song.
1886 was a very good year, and you know this to be true. thus spake me.
thus spoke zarathustra did not come out in 1886, beyond good and evil did. i believe zarathustra came out before this.
Orchid is amazing, I do think it is about time for them to reunite.
Not that it matters but
Thus spake was originally released 1883-85, however it was split into 3 parts.
in 1886 it was finally released as a single volume.
However, I really doubt that was the frame of reference for the final lines of the song.
Nietzsche is spelled incorrectly.
HELP! WHAT DID HE SAY AFTER "THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS Are for." AND BEFORE "I AM NIETZSCHE!" PLEASE!! I WANNA KNOW WHAT IS HE SAYING??
The misspellings that run throughout this band's lyrics, especially of major intellectual figures (Nietzsche, case and point), lead me to doubt the depth of Orchid's comprehension of their thought. I suspect that the namedropping is more just for effect. This is fitting, given that Nietzsche was, as Ricoeur pointed out, one of the foremost hermeneuticians of suspicion. Along with Marx and Freud, of course. Orchid sucks.
Perhaps something like this is not a mistake at all. Maybe there is a reason for this misspelling? Just a thought. Regardless this song is amazing.
The misspellings are intentional.