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[00:07.58]Like a bird on the wire,
[00:08.91]like a drunk in a midnight choir
[00:13.75]I have tried in my way to be free.
[00:25.41]Like a worm on a hook,
[00:30.72]like a knight from some old fashioned book
[00:36.64]I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
[00:49.68]If I, if I have been unkind,
[01:00.51]I hope that you can just let it go by.
[01:11.53]If I, if I have been untrue
[01:22.26]I hope you know it was never to you.
[01:31.50]Like a baby, stillborn,
[01:37.31]like a beast with his horn
[01:43.80]I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
[01:54.28]But I swear by this song
[01:59.46]and by all that I have done wrong
[02:08.21]I will make it all up to thee.
[02:17.88]I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
[02:28.62]he said to me, You must not ask for so much.
[02:39.26]And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
[02:50.02]she cried to me, Hey, why not ask for more?
[02:58.80]Oh like a bird on the wire,
[03:05.05]like a drunk in a midnight choir i have tried in my way to be free.