Free As The Wind

My Christmas gift from Hisnibs. A tiny music box with a Gustav Klimt picture. It plays “Free As The Wind” when I turn the little crank. I love it. I play it every night before I go to bed.

Free As the Wind

Yesterday's world is a dream 
Like a river that runs through my mind 
Made of fields and the white pebble stream 
That I knew as a child 
Butterfly wings in the sun 
Taught me all that I needed to see 
For they sang, sang to my heart 
"Oh look at me, oh look at me" 
"Free as the wind, free as the wind" 
"That is the way you should be"

Love was the dream of my life 
And I gave it the best I know how 
So it always brings tears to my eyes 
When I think of it now 
Gone like the butterfly days 
And the boy that I once used to be 
But my heart still hears a voice 
Tellin' me "look, look and you'll see" 
"Free as the wind, free as the wind" 
"That is the way you should be"

There's no regret that I feel 
For the bittersweet taste of it all 
If you love, there's a chance you may fly 
If you fall, well you fall 
Rather the butterfly's life 
To have lived for a day and been free 
For my heart still hears that voice 
Tellin' me "look and you'll see" 
"Free as the wind, free as the wind" 
"That is the way you should be" 
"Free as the wind, free as the wind" 
"That is the way you should be"

Written by: Jerry Goldsmith, Jacques Plante, Hal Shaper
Album: My Love
Engelbert Humperdinck
Released: 1974