Kind of Like Spitting Bird on a Wire Lyrics:
[Originally by Leonard Cohen]
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk at a midnight
choir, I have tried in my way to be free. Like a
fish on a hook, like a knight from some old
fashioned book, I have saved all my ribbons for
thee. If I have been unkind, I hope that you can
just let it go by. If I have been untrue, I hope
you know it was never to you. Like a baby
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stillborn, like a beast with its horn, I have torn
everyone who's reached out to 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 shouldn't ask for so much." And a
pretty woman kneeling in her darkened door,
screamed out to me, "Why not ask for
more?" Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk at
some midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be
free.
Lyrics: Bird on a Wire, Kind of Like Spitting [end]