Lyrics Free Will - Gil Scott-Heron

One, two

Find a shadow cast by rainbows

There you'll meet the sage

Feeding rabbits bits of lettuce

Or cleaning out the cage

He can give you more direction

Than you've ever known

Show you your bronze baby shoes

Now, my how you have grown

Ain't it nice to fly?

You're waving as soft clouds go by

But peace won't be still of its own free will

Say you want to go exploring

You got to find some truth

You can't stand one more day of Christians, shouting down at you

You say you don't dig politics, that never was your bag

People who could run for office wave their private flag

Ain't it nice to fly?

You're waving as soft clouds go by

But peace won't be still of its own free will

Ain't it nice to fly?

You're waving as soft clouds go by

But peace won't be still of its own free will

My Lord

Writer(s): Barry Eastmond, Gil Scott Heron

Album The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters

date of release

29-06-1992

1 Lady Day And John Coltrane
2 Home Is Where The Hatred Is
3 Save The Children
4 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
5 Did You Hear What They Said?
6 Pieces of a Man
7 Speed Kills
8 Everyday
9 I Think I'll Call It Morning
10 When You Are Who You Are
11 Free Will
12 Or Down You Fall
13 The Needle's Eye
14 The Middle of Your Day
15 A Sign Of The Ages
16 Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul?
17 Introduction / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
18 No Knock
19 Small Talk At 125th & Lenox
20 Billy Green Is Dead
21 Sex Education: Ghetto Style
22 The Vulture
23 The Prisoner
24 ...And Then He Wrote Meditations
25 Plastic Pattern People
26 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
27 Artificialness
28 Ain't No New Thing
29 Brother
30 Evolution (And Flashback)
31 The King Alfred Plan
32 Enough
33 Paint It Black
34 Omen
35 Wiggy
36 Comment #1
37 The Subject Was Faggots
38 Did You Hear What They Said? (Alt take 1)
39 The Middle of Your Day (Alt take 1)
40 Free Will (Alt take 1)
41 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues (alternate ending)
42 Speed Kills (Alt take 3)
43 The King Alfred Plan (Alt)
44 No Knock (Alt)
45 Wiggy (Alt)
46 Ain't No New Thing (breakdown take)
47 Billy Green Is Dead (Alt)
48 ...And Then He Wrote Meditations (Alt)
49 No Knock (breakdown Alt take)
50 Free Will (Alt take 2)

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