Cocker Joe Bird On The Wire Lyrics

Bird On The Wire Lyrics

Like a bird on the wire,

 like a drunk in a midnight choir

 I have tried in my way to be free.

 Like a worm on a hook,

 like a knight from some old fashioned book

 I have saved all my ribbons for thee.

 If I, if I have been unkind,

 I hope that you can just let it go by.

 If I, if I have been untrue

 I hope you know it was never to you. 

 

 Like a baby, stillborn,

 like a beast with his horn

 I have torn everyone who reached out for me.

 But I swear by this song

 and by all that I have done wrong

 I will make it all up to thee.

 I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,

 he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."

 And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,

 she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" 

 

 Oh like a bird on the wire,

 like a drunk in a midnight choir

 I have tried in my way to be free.