I wrote this song to Tchaikovsky's "Theme from Pathetique" back in early 2013 when I was experimenting with creating my own librettos to classic pieces ("Endymion and Selene" to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," "The Romance of Madame White Snake" to Rubinstein's "Romance," etc.). Because I was focusing on classical pieces I could actually play, I was limited in my choices, but I'd been doing this Tchaikovsky number since I was eight. To come up with a libretto, I had to first