Cohen Live:

Bird on the Wire

written by Leonard Cohen


        E           B
Like a bird on the wire
         E                  A
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
         E          B          E      B
I have tried in my way to be free
        
        E         B
Like a worm on a hook
         E                        A
Like a knight bent down in some old fashioned book
             E           B             E     E7
It was the shape of our love that twisted me
           A                             E
If I have been unkind, if I have been unkind
              F#m                           E
Oh I hope you can find a way to let it all go right on by
           A                                            E
If I have been un, if I have been untrue, if I have been untrue
                            F#m                               B     Bsus4   B
It's just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too
Like a little 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 have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
Ah don't cry, don't, don't cry, don't cry no more
It's over now, it's over, babe, don't cry no more
I say don't cry, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry anymore
It's over, it's finished, it's completed and has, it has been paid for
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in some old midnight choir
         E          B          A   E
I have tried in my way to be free