Bird On The Wire lyrics

Song information

Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: Songs From A Room

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
It's just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too

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

Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry no more. it's over now, it's over babe, don't cry no more. I say don't cry, don't cry, don't cry anymore. it's over. it's finished. it's completed. it has been paid for

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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