Bird On The Wire

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 worm on a hook

Like a knight from Some old fashioned book

It was the shape The shape of our love

That twisted me

If I have been unkind

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 baby, stillborn

Like a beast with his horn

I have torn everyone

Who reached out for me

But I swear by this song

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

Hey, 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