Bird on a Wire (Live in Toronto)

Like a bird on the wire

Like a drunk in an old midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook

Like a knight bent down in some old-fashioned book

It was the shape of our love that twisted me

If I have been unkind

I hope you can find a way

To let it all go right on by

If I have been untrue

It's just that I thought a lover

Had to be some kind of liar too

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

Don't cry, 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 anymore

It' over. It's finished. It's completed. It has been paid for

Like a bird on the wire

Like a drunk in some old midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free