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Another successful collaboration with Ian Ferrin. As with 'Vespers,' this one started with Ian's melody for the verse and chorus, and I tried to find the 'right' images and thoughts for the music.
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Internationally recognized, prize-winning lyricist well-versed in cabaret, indie, folk, country, showtunes and several other genres.
I am the Grand Prize Winner of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition for my collaboration with Eduard Glumov, "I'm Not Your Friend." We also won First Prize in the Rock/Alt Division of the Great American Song Contest. One judge called it a prime example of "world-class songwriting" and said the images in the were "often stunning." I'm a lyricist and have been collaborating with musicians from California to Kazakhstan, over the Internet. The fruits of that collaboration are found here, and at . While the winning song was a hot funk-rock song, with a compact streamlined lyric, I write in several styles. I've chosen "indie" as my genre, but I write anything from cabaret to country, and am looking to work with musicians and composers of all stripes. Currently I'm finding writing partners here in my home town of Philadelphia.
Song Info
Genre
Alternative • Indie
Charts
Peak #854
Peak in subgenre #159
Author
Z. Mulls/Ian Ferrin
Rights
2007
Uploaded
September 03, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:33
Story behind the song
Another successful collaboration with Ian Ferrin. As with "Vespers," this one started with Ian's melody for the verse and chorus, and I tried to find the "right" images and thoughts for the music. Once I had the image of the debutante looking at the (muskrat?), I couldn't get it out of my mind when listening to the music.
Lyrics
The debutante puts down her glass and looks out across the lake Staring at the woods that sit at the edge of the estate A movement at the water's edge and a pair of glowing eyes Matted fur and taffeta and a moment of surprise Nature walks beside us and whispers in our ear There are mysteries at the edge of the frontier We all hear the thunder Helpless to explain Why we can't stop the rain In a world of wonder That waits just out of our reach The taxi driver says good night as the city greet the dawn Opens his apartment window and watches life grind on Sees a nest atop a tree, and he hears the hungry chicks Waiting in their bed of twigs only inches from the bricks Nature keeps us close as we run our little race Wraps around our lives in an ageless** embrace We all hear the thunder Helpless to explain Why we can't stop the rain In a world of wonder That waits just out of our reach Blades of grass break through the sidewalk Tides come rolling in the bay The world keeps dropping hints But when we catch a glimpse We look the other way Nature keeps us close as we run our little race Wraps around our lives in an ageless embrace We all hear the thunder Helpless to explain Why we can't stop the rain In a world of wonder That waits just out of our reach
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