Bird On the Wire (Live)

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 bent down in some old fashioned book

It was the shape, the shape of our love that twisted me

If I have been unkind

Oh, if I have been unkind

I hope you can find a way to let it all go right by

If I have been untrue

If I have been untrue

It's just that I thought a liar as well as 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, 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"

And a pretty woman standing by 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

Thanks so much!