I suspect Grace was reading Nietzsche when she wrote this. "Fredrick" is not a usual English version of the name "Frederick", whereas "Friedrich" would have been a dead give-away. That was my first clue.
Second one was a PBS show on the centenary of Nietzsche's death, in 2000.
I think Grace was influenced by him, thought quite a bit like him -- who else so closely resembles a Superwoman? -- someone so talented, beautiful, blazingly intelligent, smart-mouthed -- and headed for the same fate as everyone else?
I also agree with the other interpretations of this song -- a brilliant, frenetic life, blazing across the sky TOO fast, like a comet.
"We are but a moment's sunlight" -- and some of us dazzle the eyes!
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I suspect Grace was reading Nietzsche when she wrote this. "Fredrick" is not a usual English version of the name "Frederick", whereas "Friedrich" would have been a dead give-away. That was my first clue. Second one was a PBS show on the centenary of Nietzsche's death, in 2000.
I think Grace was influenced by him, thought quite a bit like him -- who else so closely resembles a Superwoman? -- someone so talented, beautiful, blazingly intelligent, smart-mouthed -- and headed for the same fate as everyone else?
I also agree with the other interpretations of this song -- a brilliant, frenetic life, blazing across the sky TOO fast, like a comet.
"We are but a moment's sunlight" -- and some of us dazzle the eyes!