Lyrics Bird On the Wire (Live).lrc Leonard Cohen
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[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Field Commander Cohen]
[ti: Bird on the Wire (Live)]
[length: 05:08]
[00:39.95]Like a bird on a wire
[00:46.16]Like a drunk in some midnight choir
[00:51.91]I have tried in my way to be free
[01:03.55]Like a worm on the hook
[01:09.86]Like a knight bent down some old-fashioned book
[01:14.84]It was the shape, the shape of our love twisted me
[01:24.90]
[01:28.78]If I, if I have been unkind
[01:39.54]I hope you can, I hope you can just let it all go by, go by
[01:52.49]And if I, if I have been untrue
[02:02.72]It’s just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too
[02:13.44]
[02:16.84]Like a baby, stillborn
[02:24.88]Like a beast with his horn
[02:30.25]I have torn everyone who reached out for me
[02:42.34]But I swear by this song
[02:48.33]And by all that I have done wrong
[02:55.58]I will make it all up to thee
[03:03.27]
[03:06.65]I saw a beggar, he was leaning on his wooden crutch
[03:17.35]He said to me, “Come on now, you must not ask for so much”, yeah
[03:29.97]And another pretty woman, she was leaning in her darkened door
[03:40.22]She cried out to me, “Come on now, why don’t you ask
[03:45.01]Why don’t you ask for just a little more, just a little more?”
[03:51.22]
[03:54.31]Like a bird on the wire
[04:02.34]Like a drunk in some old midnight choir
[04:08.76]I have tried in my way to be free
[04:20.52]Year of Release: 2009