Bird on the wire

Esta canción la escuché una vez en una película del mismo nombre protagonizada por Mel Gibson y Goldie Hawn en 1990. Pasaron los años y supe que era del maestro Leonard Cohen.

Johnny Cash hizo un cover, lo mismo que los Neville Brothers cuya versión es la que escuché en el soundtrack del mencionado filme y cuyo video comparto hoy. Es una canción que definitivamente va al soundtrack de mi vida y supongo que de la vida de muchos otros que igual que yo tratan de ser libres a su manera.

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, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If i, if I have been untrue
I hope you know 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.
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.