ADD: Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen)

07 Apr 00 - 11:36 PM (#208704)
Subject: Bird on a wire
From: GUEST,faswilli2

please help with lyrics to 'Bird on a Wire' I think by Leonard Cohen. thanks if you know a link point me in that dir. and I'll pull it up.

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07 Apr 00 - 11:55 PM (#208718)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bird on a wire
From: Eluned

Well, it's not on Lyrics World, but it might be on All Music Guide; the problem is, what category would that be in, and how do I create a blueclickything for you?

....perhaps wiser heads can help you.

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07 Apr 00 - 11:59 PM (#208723)
Subject: Lyr Add: BIRD ON A WIRE (Leonard Cohen)
From: MK

BIRD ON A WIRE
Words and music by Leonard Cohen
As recorded by Leonard Cohen on "The Lost Sessions" (1968)

Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like the 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.
And if I, if I have been untrue,
I hope you know it was not to you.

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.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch.
He said to me, "Do not ask for so much."
And a 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 old midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free.

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08 Apr 00 - 12:01 AM (#208725)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bird on a wire
From: MK

...from the album "Songs From A Room".....

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08 Apr 00 - 03:16 AM (#208788)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bird on a wire
From: Metchosin

Thanks Michael, I forgot how much I liked that song.

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08 Apr 00 - 11:58 AM (#208873)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bird on a wire
From: MK

Happy to help.

For anyone else that may be looking for Leonard Cohen lyrics, go here.

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08 Apr 00 - 02:35 PM (#208922)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bird on a wire
From: GUEST,faswilli2

thank you all for the help. it is a beautiful song and I used to do it 20 years ago. Now I'll put it back in the book.

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