Robert Wyatt
Free Will and Testament
Given free will but within certain limitations
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me
I can only guess me
So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
I have my senses and my sense of having senses
Do I guide them? Or they me?
The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
Is there freedom to un-be?
Is there freedom from will-to-be?
Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way
We just invent or just assume a motivation
I would disperse, be disconnected, is this possible?
What are soldiers without a foe?
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended
Neither born nor left to die
Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill
Let me off please, I am so tired
Let me off please, I am so very tired
I am so very tired
Let me off please, let me off please, let me off please
Let me off please, let me off please, let me off please
Let me off please, let me off please, let me off please
Let me off please, let me off please, let me off please