'The Nietzsche Song' - 99 Red Balloons

Описание: A selective biography of the great Friedrich Nietzsche, to the tune of Nena's '99 Red Balloons'.

Perhaps a little off in points, hopefully more interesting than a dreary textbook :D
You may guess, part way through, that i can't speak German, and thus, my pronunciation may be more then a little off..


words:

in a little town they called Rocken
Friedrich Nietzsche's name
was first written
born a Lutheran Pastor
who shortly died, Nietzsche sobered faster
But as a child, a prodigy
was the word used to describe Nietzsche
he excelled at school and promised fame
but the antichrist became his name

a scholar of philology
which led him to write the birth of tragedy
an exploration of grecian arts
which wasn't well received in many parts.

he soon found his real calling
as he turned to philosophical mauling
starting off with schopenhauer
As the antichrist became his name

a proponent of relativity,
and lack of objective morality
Nietzsche's works were quite controversial
unlike Hume, that giant turtle.

in an intensely atheistic turn
Zarathustra became the source of his learning
it's here that he grabbed his claim to fame
and the antichrist became his name

(the bit where it all goes wrong..)
Wohin ist Gott?
rief er, ich will
es euch sagen!
Wir haben ihn getötet,

Gott ist tot!
Gott bleibt tot!
Und wir haben ihn getötet!
Wie trösten wir uns,
die Mörder aller Mörder?

now after that interlude
Nietzsche went mad,
and his work was 'improved'
by his awful nazi sister
who shoved it all in front of Hitler

the philosopher of the third Reich
was an ironic position for someone like him
who despised nationalism
and hated antisemitism..

and so it seems, that was his life,
a very short one of plenty strife
but now thanks to Walter Kauffman
he's regaining his reputation

a life of scholarly pursuits
is finally bursting into fruit
i'm glad of Nietzsche's final fame
though the Antichrist, he does remain..

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