"Under the elders
the older get younger
the younger get over
over the elders
and under the elders
pretend that you're older now."
"Under the elders
the older get younger
the younger get over
over the elders
and under the elders
pretend that you're older now."
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"If the Greeks were pessimists and had the will to tragedy precisely when they were surrounded by the riches of youth, if, to quote Plato, it was precisely madness which brought the greatest blessings to Hellas, and if, on the other hand and conversely, it was precisely during their period of dissolution and weakness that the Greeks became ever more optimistic, more superficial, more actorly, but also filled with a greater lust for logic and for making the world logical, which is to say more 'cheerful' and more 'scientific' could it then perhaps be the case, despite all 'modern ideas' and the prejudices of democratic taste, that the victory of optimism, the predominance of reasonableness, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like its contemporary, democracy, that all this is symptomatic of a decline in strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion? And that pessimism is precisely not a symptom of these things? Was Epicurus an optimist-- precisely because he was suffering?"
-The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche
I don't know, those lines just reminded me of that passage from the Birth of Tragedy. I may be completely off. But just another way to look at the song, I guess.
let go, perhaps?
"Under the elders the older get younger the younger get over over the elders and under the elders pretend that you're older now."
"Under the elders the older get younger the younger get over over the elders and under the elders pretend that you're older now."
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"If the Greeks were pessimists and had the will to tragedy precisely when they were surrounded by the riches of youth, if, to quote Plato, it was precisely madness which brought the greatest blessings to Hellas, and if, on the other hand and conversely, it was precisely during their period of dissolution and weakness that the Greeks became ever more optimistic, more superficial, more actorly, but also filled with a greater lust for logic and for making the world logical, which is to say more 'cheerful' and more 'scientific' could it then perhaps be the case, despite all 'modern ideas' and the prejudices of democratic taste, that the victory of optimism, the predominance of reasonableness, practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like its contemporary, democracy, that all this is symptomatic of a decline in strength, of approaching old age, of physiological exhaustion? And that pessimism is precisely not a symptom of these things? Was Epicurus an optimist-- precisely because he was suffering?" -The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche
I don't know, those lines just reminded me of that passage from the Birth of Tragedy. I may be completely off. But just another way to look at the song, I guess.