Robert Wyatt

Free Will And Testament(Chords)

Robert Wyatt

Key: D

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verse 1 
           D                           B 
Given free will but within certain limitations 
         D                            B 
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations 
         D                              B 
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me 
      Gm   Am 
I can only guess me 

verse 2 
          D                             B 
So when I say that I know me, how can I know that? 
             D                         B 
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia? 
          D                             B 
I have my senses and my sense of having senses 
     Gm                  Em 
Do I guide them? Or they me? 

verse 3 
              D                                  B 
The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects 
            D                            B 
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?  
            D                            B 
What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?  
         Gm         Em 
Is there freedom to un-be? 
         Gm                   Em7 
Is there freedom from will-to-be? 

Solo 
D B  D B  
D B  D B  
Gm Em7 Em 

verse 4 
         D                              B 
Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way 
        D                       B 
We just invent or just assume a motivation 
        D                                  B 
I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible? 
         Gm                 Em 
What are soldiers without a foe? 

Verse 5 
          D                              B 
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air  
          D                              B 
Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air  
          D                            B 
Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended 
        B                   Em 
Be neither born nor left to die 

Verse 6 
           D                                B7 
Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me 
         D                            B7 
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill 
         D                            B 
Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill 
       Gm                   Em 
Let me off please, I am so tired 
    Gm                  Em 
Let me off please, I am so very tired 
           Bm 
So very tired
	        

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