Bird On the Wire (Live In London) - Leonard Cohen

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 the hook

like a knight from some old-fashioned book

I have saved all my ribbons for thee

and if I have been unkind

I hope that you will just let it go by

and if I have been untrue

I hope you know it was never to you

like a babe 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

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch

he said to me "you must not ask for so much"

and the pretty woman leaning in her darkened door

she cried to me "hey, why not ask for more?"

like a bird on the wire

like a drunk in a midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free