Výrazná osobnost anglického progresívního rocku, zpěvák, skladatel, bubeník, trumpetista, cellista, hráč na klávesové nástroje a v neposlední řadě levicový intelektuál. Narozen v r. 1945, vl. jm. Robert Ellidge. V r. 1962 odjel do Španělska, kde...

Píseň: Free Will and Testament

Interpret:
Robert Wyatt
Album:
Shleep
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.