Lyrics Bird On a Wire.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: sluljdbr]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: The Essential]
[ti: Bird On A Wire]
[length: 03:25]
[00:01.16]Like a bird on the wire
[00:07.47]Like a drunk in a midnight choir
[00:13.11]I have tried in my way to be free
[00:24.98]Like a worm on a hook
[00:30.15]Like a knight from some old fashioned book
[00:36.21]I have saved all my ribbons for Thee
[00:47.83]If I, if I have been unkind
[00:59.71]I hope that you can just let it go by
[01:11.17]If I, if I have been untrue
[01:21.40]I hope you know it was never to you
[01:31.19]Like a baby, stillborn
[01:36.79]Like a beast with his horn
[01:42.52]I have torn everyone who reached out for me
[01:53.83]But I swear by this song
[01:59.28]And by all that I have done wrong
[02:04.85]I will make it all up to Thee
[02:16.64]I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
[02:27.70]He said to me, “You must not ask for so much”
[02:38.99]And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
[02:49.22]She cried to me, “Hey, why not ask for more?”
[02:58.48]Oh, like a bird on the wire
[03:04.45]Like a drunk in a midnight choir
[03:10.22]I have tried in my way to be free
[03:21.71]Year of Release: 1969