Lyrics:

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I have been unkind, Please just let it go by. If I have been untrue It was never to you. 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. It was never to you 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?' Oh like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.