
“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”
Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”
Ólafur
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
The Yellow Book, 1974
Context: Q: Did you start life like us with lots of demands, and what spurred you to give it up? A: When I was six or seven, I would feel I was inside a box of earth and sky, and I would weep. Once I asked my mother: "Take me out of this box of earth and sky." She said, "I can't." Then I said, "I'm going." (p.33)
“I'm flat on the floor, with my head down low, where the sky can't rain on me anymore.”
From Flat on the Floor from the album, Carnival Ride (2007). [Misattributed: performer not credited as writer.]
“You cut me out in little stars.
And place me in the sky.”
Song lyrics
Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics