Leonard Cohen

Like a Bird on a Wire

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 in an old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.

And if I have been unkind
I hope you will let it go by
And if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was not to you.

Like a babe stillborn
Like a beast with its horn
I have torn everyone who reached out to me.

But I swear by this song
By all that I have done wrong
That I will make it, make it all up to you.

I saw a man leaning on his crutch
And he said to me, Why do you ask so much?
I saw a woman, she was leaning in her door
And she cried out to me, Why not ask for more?

Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunken midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

But I swear by this song
By all that I have done wrong
That I will make it, make it all up to you.