Lyrics

Lyrics from "Of Self-Overcoming" chapter in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever I create
However much I
Love it
Soon I have to
Oppose it and my love
Thus will my will have it
My will to power
Walks with the feet
Of your will to truth
Living creatures value
Higher than life itself
Many things
The will to power

I am that which must overcome
Overcome itself, again and again

Thus life once taught me
And with this teaching
I solve the riddle of
Your hearts
I have followed
Greatest and smallest
That I might understand
Caught its glance in a
Hundredfold mirror
When its mouth was closed
That its eye might speak to me
And it did
Language of
Obedience

He who cannot obey himself
Will be commanded
Encounter risk and danger
Play dice for death
Devotion of the greatest

Creator
He who has to be a
Creator in good and evil
Has first to be
Destroyer
To be
Silent is worse
All suppressed truths become
Poisonous
Creator
Thus the greatest evil
Belongs with the greatest good
The creative good
Destroyer
And let
Everything that
Can break upon our truths
Now break!