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Bart van Oijen


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two crows on a wire

Like two birds on a wire,
like two drunks in the midnight choir....

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  • Robert L. Roux 11/11/2005 15:51

    Favourites are never forgotten, me amigo -
    ( the Latin version would be awsome - but English remains the language I continue to have the most trouble with in a technical sense ... :-)
    Warmest greetings from a place where, today, we respectfully remember the things that should never be forgotten
    Robert
  • Bart van Oijen 11/11/2005 9:48

    Here are the complete lyrics of this beautiful Leonard Cohen song:

    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.
  • Robert L. Roux 11/11/2005 6:52

    I (auch) have tried, in my way, to be true -
    but now: I simply wonder - what are those two crows talking about?
    Greetings from the northwest corner of Canadian legend Leonard Cohen's Heimat ... :-)
    Robert