Leonard Cohen — Bird on a Wire Live in Paris

Comme l'oiseau sur la branche Comme l'ivrogne dans le choeur de la nuit J'ai cherche ma liberte Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in some midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Like a worm on a hook Like a knight bent down on some old fashioned book It was the shape, the shape of our love, twisted me If I, if I have been unkind I hope you can, I hope you can, just let it go by, just let it go by And if I, if I have been untrue I just that I thought 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 leaning on his wooden crutch He says to me, "Come on now, you must not ask for so much", yeah And another pretty woman, she was leaning on her darkened door She cried to me, "Come on now, why don't you ask, why don't ask for just a little more? Just a little more" Oh like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in some old midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free