I don't know what free is 作词 : Jenny Hval 作曲 : Jenny Hval I, I tried to ask: What is a performance? What is to write? Who is telling it? When nobody wants to speak Someone wrote: "... a performance is something that takes place Or, even better, someone who is present". But I don't know what it is in your case… … to be present … She wants to disappear, she wants to be ashes, musk, breath She has worked on it her whole life She has worked on it her whole life To resist To breathe out, trying not to breathe in too much "If I only breathe mostly out I will rid myself Of myself" Sign me out, out of the digital earth Erase me, erase me from brittle pages Write me out, out of the manuscript Open up your mouth Exhale me with your cigarette smoke Like you gave me life, now set me free I don't know what free is But I think you do Take responsibility for your forms Or maybe not Or maybe not Or maybe not