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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 worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Oh, 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 said to me : 'You must not ask for so much'
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me : 'Hey, why not ask for more ?'.
Oh, like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
- Album:
- One Nation Underground
- Miscellaneous
- The Wizard of Is
- The Psychedelic Years Revisited
- ...Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
- City of Gold
- The Use of Ashes
- Constructive Melancholy: Thirty Years of Pearls Before Swine
- These Things Too
- A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble, Volume 2: Pagan Love...
- Balaklava
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- Creative Outlaws - U.S. Underground 1962-1970
- Balaklava (1968)
- For the Dead In Space, Vols. II & III
- Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
- Rhino Hi-Five: Pearls Before Swine
- The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
- A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind
- Beautiful Lies You Could Live in (US Release)