0067 – Bird on the wire - Leonard Cohen (1969)

Escrita por Leonard Cohen, foi gravada em 26 de setembro de 1968, em Nashville, Tennessee. Foi lançada em abril de 1969 no disco Songs from a room. Quem primeiro lançou-a foi Judy Collins, ainda em 1968. Joe Cocker iria lançar sua versão em 1969. Além dos dois citados, foi regravada também por Jackie DeShannon, Dave Van Ronk, Jennifer Warnes, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, KD Lang e Elvis Costello, entre outros artistas.

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, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you

For 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, "you must not ask for so much"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh, like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

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