Free Will And Testament chords by Robert Wyatt

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
      D MajorD              BB
Given free will but within certain limitations
     D MajorD              BB
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations
     D MajorD               BB
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me
   G minorGm  A minorAm
I can only guess me

Verse 2:
     D MajorD               BB
So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
       D MajorD             BB
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
     D MajorD               BB
I have my senses and my sense of having senses
   G minorGm         E minorEm
Do I guide them? Or they me?

Verse 3:
       D MajorD                 BB
The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects
      D MajorD              BB
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
      D MajorD              BB
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?
     G minorGm     E minorEm
Is there freedom to un-be?
     G minorGm          E minor 7Em7
Is there freedom from will-to-be?

Solo:
D MajorD BB D MajorD BB
D MajorD BB D MajorD BB
G minorGm E minor 7Em7 E minorEm

Verse 4:
     D MajorD               BB
Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way
    D MajorD            BB
We just invent or just assume a motivation
    D MajorD                 BB
I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?
     G minorGm         E minorEm
What are soldiers without a foe?

Verse 5:
     D MajorD               BB
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air
     D MajorD               BB
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air
     D MajorD              BB
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended
    BB          E minorEm
Be neither born nor left to die

Verse 6:
      D MajorD                B7B7
Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me
     D MajorD              B7B7
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill
     D MajorD              BB
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill
    G minorGm          E minorEm
Let me off please, I am so tired
  G minorGm         E minorEm
Let me off please, I am so very tired
      B minorBm
So very tired