Bird On A Wire - Fairport Convention

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 penned down in some old fashioned book

It was the shape, the shape of an old love that twisted me

If I have been unkind, if I have been unkind

I hope that you can find a way to let all go right on by

If I have been untrue, if I have been untrue

It’s just, I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too

Like a little baby, stillborn

Like a beast with his horn

I have torn everyone who reached out for me

But I swear by this song

I swear by all that I have done wrong

I will make it all up to thee

I say, don’t cry, oh, don’t cry, don’t cry anymore

It’s over now, it’s done, it has been paid for

I say, don’t cry, don’t cry, you were always the one

Yeah, it was you that this longing was made for

Like a bird on the wire

Like a drunk in some midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free