In 2001, a life code It pays to talk to no-one, no-one!
Proliferating across the earth Also Sprach Zarathustra1 Faction Europa Free range Free range
2001 - Also Sprach Zarathustra2 Proliferating across the earth Pressure guilt Grudge match Twelve c.m. flak unit Range one stroke thirty-five
This is the spring without end 3 This is the summer of malcontent This is the winter of your mind 4
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By 2001, Also Sprach Zarathustra It pays to talk to no-one no more! Europa, faction Proliferating across the earth
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This is the spring without end This is the winter of your mind
A life code, 2001, free range Insect posse will be crushed 5 Moravia, trouble, Moldavia, Europa Every second third word Europa It pays to talk to no-one no more!
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Footnotes
Italicised here because I take the phrase to be a direct reference to either Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, or Richard Strauss’s orchestra tone poem with the same title (which was inspired by Nietzsche’s work). ↩︎
Richard Strauss‘s Also Sprach Zarathustra was used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: a Space Odyssey. ↩︎
“O, Spring Without End” is the title of a 1907 poem by Alexander Blok. The opening movement of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 was originally titled “Spring Without End.” ↩︎
A nod here towards Richard’s opening monologue in Shakespeare’s play Richard III: “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York”.
As is often the case, M.E.S. omits autumn (‘the fall’ in American English) from the listed seasons. ↩︎
M.E.S. seems to have liked this line, which also appears in “Dangerous“, one of the remixes of “So What About It?“, and the Peel Session version of “The Mixer“. ↩︎
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