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It Does Not Mean a Thing
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If there is a Darren Zieger style of song, it's neatly encapsulated in this one, a synth-driven modern folk anthem to agnosticism. The recording is a little muddy, but it's still one of my favorites.
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Folk music for postmoderns
I am what you might call a musical generalist. I listen to pretty much everything and I compose in pretty much any style, though I concentrate mainly on folk, folk-rock, rock, synth-pop, alternative, comedy, musical theatre, jazz, new-age, film music, avant-garde, and the occasional lullaby (why sing your kid to sleep with "Rock-a-bye Baby" when you can can create something personalized?). I've done most of my professional (i.e. paid) work in the theatre, where I've been musical director for dozens of productions. I was also musical director of Mental Floss, the legendary Miami improv group, for over 500 performances; I recently did a stint with Laughing Gas, which rose from the ashes of Mental Floss 11 years ago to become the longest running improv group in South Florida. As a singer-songwriter, I've concentrated most of my energy on my signature style of synth-driven folk-rock (sort of Indigo Girls meets Vangelis). I'm also something of a minor celebrity in the world of Filk (folk music for science fiction fans), where I am proud to be the object of the worlds smallest international fan base.
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Genre
Rock Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #47
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Darren Zieger
Rights
1996
Uploaded
June 08, 2006
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MP3 3.9 MB 128 kbps 4:17
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My life has been a kind of Free fall into Cold rivers of light and dark Break the surface you are Reborn into the everyday And the indecision It is not an act of faith, moving on It is all about survival Everything you need is in your heart I have never truly loved Or been loved I have only scratched the surface I have felt pain but not the Kind of pain they write about When they're trying to sell songs And I believe in the here and now Not what I read in some book of verses Though they try to close my eyes I see through It's real or it's false It stands or it falls It comes and it goes But it does not mean a thing I have called myself a drifter But I find these days I am too long in one place I want to cut the lines I want to fly away I want to free fall into space I can't believe that it's all been planned By something unheard and unseen Though I look for signs in everything I see It's real or it's false It stands or it falls It comes and it goes But it does not mean a thing It's real or it's false It stands or it falls It comes and it goes But it does not mean a thing
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