Lyrics: This Free Will
Album: Roots To Branches
Artist: Jethro Tull
 

She peeled from a stretch black snake
Which slipped up to the hotel door.
Darting looks from piercing eyes —
The stir of memory and then no more.
Well, you know how i have to believe —
She can almost remember my name.

It’s been a long time coming, babe —
Long time loose amongst foreign hills —
Shaking my faith in this free will.

Years ago in a coastal town,
Mosquitoes buzzed in her hair.
Schooldress torn and bare feet brown —
Then the rains came and she wasn’t there.
You’re closing your doors on me
When you had almost remembered my name.

It’s been a long time coming, babe —
Long time loose amongst foreign hills —
Shaking my faith in this free will.

Sharp points in an ink black sky —
Faint words collide, then are lost.
I’ll follow you beneath this dome —
Win you back at any cost.
I know we were children then,
But you can almost remember my name.

It’s been a long time coming, babe —
Long time loose amongst foreign hills —
Well, let’s be children still —
Don’t shake my faith in this free will.

Don’t shake my faith in this free will.