Cohen Leonard 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.