Bird on the Wire - Live in London
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight bent down in some old-fashioned book
It was the shape, the shape of our love
That twisted thee
If I have been unkind
Oh, if I have been unkind
I hope you can find a way
To let it all go right on by
If I have been untrue
If I have been untrue
It's just that I thought a liar, I thought a lover
Had to be some kind of liar too
Bob Metzger on the guitar
Dino Soldo on the saxophone
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
I, I swear by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all, all up to thee
I saw this beggar, he was leaning on his wooden crutch
He says to me "Leonard, you just can't ask for all that much"
A pretty woman standing in her darkened door
She cries out to me "why not ask for just a little bit more?"
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight bent down in some old-fashioned book
It was the shape, the shape of our love
That twisted thee
If I have been unkind
Oh, if I have been unkind
I hope you can find a way
To let it all go right on by
If I have been untrue
If I have been untrue
It's just that I thought a liar, I thought a lover
Had to be some kind of liar too
Bob Metzger on the guitar
Dino Soldo on the saxophone
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
I, I swear by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all, all up to thee
I saw this beggar, he was leaning on his wooden crutch
He says to me "Leonard, you just can't ask for all that much"
A pretty woman standing in her darkened door
She cries out to me "why not ask for just a little bit more?"
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Credits
Writer(s): Leonard Cohen
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Other Album Tracks
- Dance Me to the End of Love - Live in London
- The Future - Live in London
- Ain't No Cure for Love - Live in London
- Bird on the Wire - Live in London
- Everybody Knows - Live in London
- In My Secret Life - Live in London
- Who by Fire - Live in London
- Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Live in London
- Anthem - Live in London
- Introduction - Live in London
Altri album
- Under The Marble (Live New York '85)
- You Want it Darker (Satori Remix (Radio Edit)) - Single
- Teacher Of The Heart (Live)
- Songs of Fire and Ice (Live 1988)
- Freedom Soon Will Come (Live 1988)
- Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2022)
- A Poet In Germany (Live 1979)
- Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums
- From The Silence (Live 1993)
- A Poet In Amsterdam (Live)
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