Here's a song about absolutely nothing: It's not about me,
Not about anyone else;
Not about love.
Not about being young,
Not about anything else either

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Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Occitan by Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine, Comte de Poitiers (1071 - 1127), "Farai un vers de dreyt nien"
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Anian Wiedner (b. 2001), "The Song of Nothing", 2025 [ soprano, bass flute and percussion ], note: the sung text interleaves fragments of the original Occitan text and the translation
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Tansy Davies.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-12
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