[00:00.52]Like a bird on the wire
[00:05.21]Like a drunk in a midnight choir
[00:09.36]I have tried in my way to be free
[00:17.40]Like a worm on a hook
[00:21.27]Like a knight from some old fashioned book
[00:25.85]I have saved all my ribbons for thee
[00:32.52]
[00:34.71]If I have been unkind
[00:43.13]I hope you can just let it go by
[00:50.98]If I have been untrue
[01:00.25]I hope you know it was never to you
[01:06.85]
[01:08.06]Like a baby still born
[01:12.09]Like a beast with his horn
[01:16.13]I have torn anyone
[01:19.97]Who reached out for me
[01:22.25]
[01:24.24]But I swear by this song
[01:28.54]And by all that I have done wrong
[01:32.60]I will make it all up to thee
[01:38.63]
[01:41.31]I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
[01:48.83]He said to me
[01:51.60]“You must not ask for so much”
[01:56.88]And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
[02:05.86]She cried to me
[02:08.06]“Hey, why not ask for more”
[02:13.22]Like a bird on the wire
[02:17.76]Like a drunk in a midnight choir
[02:22.15]I have tried in my way to be free
[02:29.71]Like a worm on a hook
[02:33.83]Like a knight from some old fashioned book
[02:38.22]I have saved all my ribbons for thee
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