Like a bird on a wire
   Like a bird in a midnight choir
   I have tried in my way to be free
  
   Like a worm on the hook
   like a knight from old fashioned book
   I have saved all my ribbons for thee
  
   If i have been unkind
   it was never to you
  
   If i have just been untrue
   it was never to you
  
   Like a Baby stilborn
   Like a beast with his horn
   I have thorn everyone to reached out for me
  
   But i swearby this song
   and by all that i have done wrong
   i will make it up for thee
  
   it was never to you
  
   I saw the beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
   He said to me you must not ask for so mutch
   And a pretty women leaning in her darkened door
   she cried to me hey why not ask for more
  
   Oh like a bird on a wire
   Like a drunk in a midnight choir
   Ihave tried in my way to be free