Jennifer Warnes - Bird on a Wire

source: Messylin
Bird on a wire (lyrics by Leonard Cohen)

Like a bird on a 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'll just let it go by (let it all go by)
And if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
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 that I've done wrong
I'll make it all up to you (yes I will)
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He called out to me: "Don't ask for so much"
And a young man leaning on his darkened door
He cried out to me: "Babe,
Why not ask for more?"
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free