Joe Cocker - Bird on a Wire Lyrics

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I've tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from an old fashioned book
I've saved, saved all my ribbons just for thee

Oh, and if I, if I have been unkind
Oh, I hope that you can just let it go by
Oh and if I, if I have been untrue, love
Well, I hope you'll know it was never to you

Like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast, oh, with his horn
I've torn everyone who reached out for me

But I swear this, swear by this song
I swear by all that I have done wrong
I will make, I will make it all up to thee

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
When he said to me, "Oh, don't ask for so much"
Oh, and a pretty woman standing by that darkened door
She cried out to me, "Why not ask for more?"

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk, oh, in a midnight choir
I've tried in my way to be free

And I've tried, oh, I've tried
And oh, I've tried, oh, I've tried
Oh, yes I've tried, yeah yeah I've tried
Yeah and I've tried, oh yes I've tried
Oh, I've tried, oh, in my way to be free
I've tried in to be free