It would seem that she is speaking of a previous love and the relationship between herself and that lover. He (or maybe even she) was her god who felt she was too self-obsessed with her art and not totally, fully, and completely committed to the relationship. She seems to have worshipped this person in love.
Nietzsche was a German philosopher and maybe she is utilizing Nietzsche here to symbolize her tendency to be too rational, technical or even intellectual in her relationship.
She seems to have gone through a stage of self-introspection and noticed this tendency to be too "Nietzschean". Thus, she noticed that this tendency -- of seeing her relationship through Nietzsche's eyes and being his kind -- brought the relationship down and failed in their relationship as a whole and where it was destined to go. She noticed this and realizes she wasn't being herself, but merely appealing to her intellectual tendencies.
By saying, "you were not my superman" she is trying to get the idea across that this lover wasn't truly what she'd though they were before. Nietzsche believed in the "Overman", or "Superman" -- a being whom has overcome or surpassed modern man and epitomizes and symbolizes all that is great. This is Nietzsche's so-to-say god in that he seems to sublimate himself to inevitable coming of this being. So, this can incorporated here to symbolize that her lover wasn’t truly her god (which she states at the beginning of the song) in that they weren’t truly her superman – if you remember that she is seeing everything through Nietzsche’s eyes.
It would seem that she is speaking of a previous love and the relationship between herself and that lover. He (or maybe even she) was her god who felt she was too self-obsessed with her art and not totally, fully, and completely committed to the relationship. She seems to have worshipped this person in love.
Nietzsche was a German philosopher and maybe she is utilizing Nietzsche here to symbolize her tendency to be too rational, technical or even intellectual in her relationship.
She seems to have gone through a stage of self-introspection and noticed this tendency to be too "Nietzschean". Thus, she noticed that this tendency -- of seeing her relationship through Nietzsche's eyes and being his kind -- brought the relationship down and failed in their relationship as a whole and where it was destined to go. She noticed this and realizes she wasn't being herself, but merely appealing to her intellectual tendencies.
By saying, "you were not my superman" she is trying to get the idea across that this lover wasn't truly what she'd though they were before. Nietzsche believed in the "Overman", or "Superman" -- a being whom has overcome or surpassed modern man and epitomizes and symbolizes all that is great. This is Nietzsche's so-to-say god in that he seems to sublimate himself to inevitable coming of this being. So, this can incorporated here to symbolize that her lover wasn’t truly her god (which she states at the beginning of the song) in that they weren’t truly her superman – if you remember that she is seeing everything through Nietzsche’s eyes.
Logically make sense?