Leonard Cohen - Bird On A Wire (Live At Isle Of Wight Festival, UK)

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.
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.
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