- Song Name: Bird on the Wire
- Artist Name: Leonard Cohen
- Album: Mojo Presents
- Songwriter: Leonard Cohen
- Release Date: 2003.09.30
- Label: Sony International
LYRICS FOR "Bird on the Wire"
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
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I
I hope you know it was never to you
Oh
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
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me
Oh like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
© LEONARD COHEN STRANGER MUSIC INC
