Bird on the Wire (Live in Paris, 1972) versuri

Versuri Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire (Live in Paris, 1972) lyrics

Comme l’oiseau sur la branche
Comme l’ivrogne dans le choeur de la nuit
J’ai cherché ma liberté

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 the hook
Like a knight bent down in some old-fashioned book
It was the shape, the shape of our love that twisted me

If I, if I have been unkind
I hope you can, I hope you can just let it all go by, go by
And ıf I, if I have been untrue,
It′s just that Ithought a lover had to be some kind of liar too

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, he was leaning on his wooden crutch
He says to me, „Come on now, you mus not ask for all so much”, yeah
And another pretty woman, she was leaning in her darkened door
She cried out to me, „Come on now, why don’t you ask,
Why don’t you ask for just a little more, just a little more?”

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in some old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free