Written on June 23rd 2016 during the UK's referendum on EU membership while semi-watching a documentary about Friedrich Nietzsche, whose work inspired the lyric and title of the song. Given the result of the referendum, the choice of song title and lyric seems bizarrely appropriate. :(

is the answer or reason
in my father's sperm
are the things i believe in
in my mother's egg

oh my sister
oh my brother
all my dreams are
all i live for

is the past and the future
in my dna
is my coming to being
the birth of tragedy

oh my father
oh my mother
all my reasons for living
all i'd die for

all the ways that i'm feeling
all my senses
all my hopes and my dreaming
all my fantasy

all my lovers
all emotion
all my fears for tomorrow
all i understand

all i choose to believe in
all my god knows
all i hope of acheiving
all i follow

all my reason
all my sorrow
all i've come to know
birth of a tragedy

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