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 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.

surprises and curious cats out of the blue

Out of the blue

No need to wipe your feet
the welcome mat's not there.

But just take care
before you dar to
step inside my door.

Something unbelievable
has happened to the floor.

These rooms won't give you shelter.
They're open to the air.
The upper storey's out of reach,
the striar's no longer there.

For reasons beyond all understanding,
you've blown my house apart.
You've set me free
(to let you know
you've planted
everlasting hatred in my heart)

You've planted
everlasting hatred in my heart.

Robert Wyatt, ComicOpera, 2007

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Robert Wyatt, Shipbuilding



Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Shipbuilding



Robert Wyatt & Elvis Costello, Shipbuilding




O génio do Elvis Costello e a voz do Robert Wyatt tinham de ser ensinados desde a pré-escola.

William sings

schiuuuuu!...

Comic Opera

quando a música muda tudo # 1(c)

Shipbuilding, Robert Wyatt & Elvis Costello

quando a música muda tudo # 1(b)

Shipbuilding, Robert Wyatt