Bird on the Wire
Leonard Cohen • Key:
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Bird on the Wire
Leonard Cohen
Like a b
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ird on the w
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ire, like a dr
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unk in a midnight ch
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oir
I have tr
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ied in my w
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ay to be free
Asus4
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Like a w
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orm on a h
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ook, like a kn
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ight from some old-fashioned b
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ook
I have s
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aved all my r
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ibbons for thee
Asus4
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D
If I, if I have been unk
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ind
Bm
I hope that you can just let it go b
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y
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If I, if I have been untr
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ue,
Bm
I hope you know it was never to y
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ou.
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 and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Like a b
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ird on the w
E
ire, like a dr
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unk in a midnight ch
D
oir
I have tr
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ied in my w
E
ay to be free
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