Free Will And Testament Lyrics - Different Every Time - Robert Wyatt

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 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.