Bird On A Wire -- Leonard Cohen

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free. Like a fish on a hook,
like a knight from an old fashioned book  I have saved all
my ribbons for thee.  If I have been unkind, I hope that you
could just let it go by. And if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you. No, no

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
By all I have done wrong I'll make it all up to you. Yes I will
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,  called out to me,
"Don't ask for so much." And a young man leaning on his
 darkened door, He cried out to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

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