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Bird on a Wire lyrics
Like a bird on a 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, you can just let it go by
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'll 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 out to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
If I, if I have been unkind
I hope, you can just let it go by
If I have been untrue
It was never to you
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Part of these releases
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- Track 6 on Essential Leonard Cohen
- 5 So Long, Marianne
- 7 The Partisan
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- Track 2 on Cohen Live
- 1 Dance Me to the End of Love
- 3 Everybody Knows
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- Track 3 on Live In Dublin
- 2 The Future
- 4 Everybody Knows
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