Like a bird on the 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, umm... I hope that you could just let it go by. Oh, let it go by. And if I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you. No, no,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 By all I have done wrong I'll make it all up to you. Yes I will I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, umm-- 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, Hey, why not ask for more? umm Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. umm... ....
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