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