Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire (Live in London)
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- Leonard Cohen - Bird On The Wire (Live In London) (Official Video)
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Lyrics:
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on the hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
And if I have been unkind
I hope that you will just let it go by
And if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
Like a babe 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 the pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me: "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free - เพลง
This song changed my life when I was in prison. Still makes me cry
I think this man has saved people from themselves on more than one occasion. Dear soul.
Fair comment Jamie, he was the best you have a good taste in music my dear friend.I have depressive episodes and symptoms of bipolar as well as aspergers syndrome.I really struggle at times.Nowadays everything is so remote and inpersonal, when what we really need is human contact that is sincere, loving and true to support each other.You have excellent taste in music friend and I salute you !!! Get his best of CD , great for playing in the Car Hehehehe :¬) !!!
Saved on a daily basis by the mysticism and truth in his verse!
No Jesus Christ is in the flesh I SAVE ALL KINGDOMS I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE YOUR THE LIAR :) this is not Hugh Monahan this is THE SON
@@hughmonahan8740 Ehh what?
@@jamieholmes5443 read 2 John 1:7
No one takes your soul, slice, dices,whips and purees it, then hands it back to you with love and understanding, like this man.
No one.
you nailed it!
Amen! Started listening in the 60s. Still listening and loving in 2023. Lucky to have seen him live in Halifax! Magical and emotional memory! ❤️❤️❤️
Hearing this song makes me want to kneel down and pray, everytime
RIP Leonard Cohen 🙏
He was the sexiest 80 something man ever. So sad he is gone.
Believe it
Thats cuz he sang the human condition bw men and women
You should listen to his "stages" bit. He spoke about precisely that, the stages a man goes through vis-à-vis the opposite sex.
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde
I Love this❤ thank you so much for sharing it 🙏
@@Julia-ep2uwo
Je n'ai jamais entendu rien d'aussi beau❤ je l'écoute encore et encore je ne m'en lasse jamais
Vous pouvez également apprécier ce morceau de sagesse:
"Tout ce qui est fait dans le présent, affecte l'avenir par conséquent et le passé par rédemption."
Paulo Coelho
S'il vous plaît soyez bien,
Ps. Veuillez pardonner à mon français, je suis à la merci de mon traducteur de Google. You may enjoy this piece of wisdom as well:
"Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption."
Paulo Coelho
Please Be Well, Will
PS. Please forgive my French, I am at the mercy of my Google Translator. @@charlettebernabe1500
Heard it first when I was 17 . Still listening at 70 and to be played at my funeral along with Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh and going out with dear Eddie playing Eruption really loud , haha loud enough for me to hear it ,. This old lady is going out in style 🖖😎
I took R&R and flew out of Kandahar to London to be on this concert. This was my best R&R and I have them a lot while I was in military
This old lady, 70 also, will never forget seeing him at the quiet night in Chicago in the 70s. Great, great stuff.
Me too. This is my funeral song of choice! I’m 70 too and have loved his songs for sooooo long. I can’t even remember when I first heard him.
Kristofferson says he wants the first 3 lines of this song on his tombstone...
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Thank you for knowing LC..his music, his poetry and his love...i love this guy..❤❤❤
His body has passed away,but not his soul,his work will live with us for ever,it is up to his fans to keep his message alive
Pure poetry in song. Bob Metzger's playing is as clean and pure as it gets. The sax evokes memories of Paul Desmond. Sorry I never heard this man in concert, but glad we have TH-cam.
Saw him the year before he passed. Was the best. His orchestrations were great
I bought tickets to see Cohen in four countries. He always canceled. He had horrid stage fright.
Eu vi L COHEN em Lisboa 2012. Concerto de uma vida ! Fabuloso ! Talento & simpatia
His musicians love what they are doing as much as he does.
I encountered Leonard‘s music in the late 60s. I would lay in the dark, listening to “Bird on a Wire.”
It spoke to me and made me cry as I too was trying, in my way, to be free.
I still love him after all these years.
That's beautiful! Born in 61.Never heard this!!!
felt the same but prefer the original - just his voice and my mind
He was the composer so this is original.
ditto brother..first heard in the Yorkville village Toronto in the 60's
listening to this because it is the only thing running through my head. Morning and night I think about "i have torn everyone who reached out for me"
But i forgot about the "I'll make it up" part...
my goodness!!! He is amazing. one of a kind wonderful!! RIP Mr Cohen. He’s singing with the angels. 😇
Singing
The words and music of Leonard Cohen and Kris Kristofferson have woven themselves through my life for more than 50 years now. They have touched my soul and brought me through the hardest times. What genius they blessed the world with. Leonard Cohen was that rare talent who only got better with age - I believe this was his finest work ever.
The Silver Tongued Devil
Suzanne was his greatest work, after Hallelujah.
Le tenían que haber dado el Premio Nobel a él, que fue un verdadero poeta. Como muestra, está fabulosa canción.
אין כמו אימא בעולם!!!!!!!!!!
This was pure genius. A wonderful gift to mankind.
Love the movement it's so refreshing .
Er singt merin Leben
That's Just right!
human kind
Léonard Cohen est simplement un génie. J 'ai eu la chance de le voir en concert il y a bien longtemps ,transportée vers un ailleurs de poésie mise remarquablement en musique
Chaque fois que je l 'écoute ,j 'ai toujours et encore des papillons dans l 'estomac...
like a fine wine, leonard Cohen gets better with age- the more you listen the better it gets! :¬)
true
For 6 hours I have been listening and reminiscing to Leonard tell me about my life.
I miss Leonard Soo much. Love him always
Guitar and Saxophone just Amazing 👏👏❣️
Poet humble gentle wonder and awe. To many titles to go through. A man of men. A man to every woman. I love u Leonard. See u when I get there babe .love valerie
This beautiful soul takes his hat off for his fellow musicians.. 😭😭 this man is holy.
Agreed
@Zolar Czakl It might sound strange but I can feel it when I'm watching him.
Oh Leonard, how you can grip my heart, open it and wring it at the same time. The absolute epitome of soul music.
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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
For 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
he gave all of himself. completely. beloved
Amen
Just commenting to observe he changed the lyrics in this version - the original goes:
"If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you"
and he changed it to:
"If I, if I have been untrue
it's just that I thought a liar, I thought a lover had to be some kinda liar too"
I think it's a very telling and lovely change and it probably makes the song more truthful... he had a lot of guilt saved up over his relationship with marianne, I reckon. writing later in his poem "days of kindness" he talks of his abandonment of “Marianne and the child”, and that he prays that “loving memory exists for them too / the precious ones I overthrew / for an education in the world”.
😭
Thank you for the lyrics
I have loved this great man since I saw him in concert in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980's. And this is my absolute favourite of all of his incredible songs. My heart aches when he sings it. So sad that you have left us, Mr Cohen. RIP
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The poet, the musician and the artist. A gentlem with a soul...
True gentleman with a deep soul I like listening to him. May he rest in peace
Never get tired of listening to tis man.
I have been in love with the music and the man since Judy Collins introduced him to the world in the '60s. Look at his hands, then his eyes. A great poet, a magical musician, a voice filled with passion and pain, love and ecstasy. He spoke to me one time while on stage, to tease me that my daughter had fallen asleep. It was the '80s and there I was in the front row with my sleepy 10 yr old and ex-husband. If I had any sense I'd have sent them home to his house and gone up to Leonard to apologize, in any way, whenever he was in LA. I might have if Joni Mitchell wasn't sitting in the audience. They had once been lovers. Sigh. I love him still and I am old and he is gone. I hope Joni enjoys her memories.
I'm so heartbroken that I've fallen in love with him after he died. He was incredible. So glad these videos are on TH-cam for people like me to discover.
Hi Kate...Yeah..hindsight.... it's a thing ain't it.
Glad you loved the guy...as much as I did.
I was a latecomer to his music...But by God, He filled my life and sensibilities like no other.
What a guy. I owe him so much.
An absolute cornerstone of my life.
I listen to him at every opportunity...and they just are not enough. God Bless You, Leonard.
Thank You for your life. You Blessed The World.
An artist that can take you to a higher, spiritual,
consciousness of life. He is on a higher plane, close to he Angel's of God.
Exactly
He lived in an ashram for a
number of years. I was so happy I got to see him in concert. He is the best. Saying that, coming up is Jim Van Der Zee. I'm not sure he ever reach the level of Leonard's writing but his voice is sublime and he has a few covers of Cohens.
He speaks to the darkness in my soul that I hide from the world
so true my brother
He does …. The beauty and the pain. May he Rest in Peace
He will never leave us I guess, he will be right here forever!!!
Yes, Sir. He'll always be right here, in the Tower of Song.
As long as we his fans ,,teach the youngens and keep him alive. Cause kids today dont know good music,,well some do ,, but still try n teach young an old about Mr Cohen,, hes a treasure we cant afford to loose his words ,his wisdom, his beautiful painful songs that touch u at your very core of soul ,, as if God sent him to teach us ,, b4 he decided it was time for a private concert in heaven ,, God luv u LC ,,I do ❤❤❤💄💋💋💋💋👠📿💃🎵🎶🎵❤
Leonard Cohen es irrepetible, su elegancia, su sencillez, su sobria y limpia sonrisa, su voz profunda, su hondo sentimiento, sus coros, sus músicos... Leonard Cohen fue un magnífico y fecundo poeta, un compositor genial, un intérprete simpar y un ser humano UNICO. Adoraba y adoro sus canciones, me aportan tanto que estaré eternamente agradecido a este mensajero de meditaciones y reflexiones tan elevadas.
Gracias MAESTRO COHEN
I sit and listen all day to Leonard Cohen with tears in my eyes it's so hurtful that he passed away he had plenty more to givel
Me too
@Kyle O'Bryan You speak my soul with your words. I've come to love Leonard Cohen too late on life but feel blessed to discover him
@@rayneville5081 Me, too :(
I was 14 when I first herd him sing
He's not gone. He's right here, in The Tower of Song.
Till you are at the saddest point you could ever get to this song will never have the real meaning and even then I wonder if we will ever get it
Amongst the most achingly beautiful lyric ever written. T
Like a child stillborn like a beast with its horn I have torn everyone who reached out to me
Achingly beautiful …. Could not have said it better, Gwyn
@@carolkleinhans9612 yes
I discovered his music not to long ago and I felt in love. I never get tired of listening.
kd lang keeps his music alive
Me too. I really fell in love with his voice and the lyrics! Awesome!!!!
his music is haunting from his memories of the Holocaust and his family RIP LEONARD
What a gift Leonard Cohen was to all, able to put words onto the deepest of human experience. Thank you. Namaste.
Der Sound schwingt gerade voll auf meiner Energie und ich bin vollkommen verzaubert. Sooo schön 🥰♥️👍
Considered the greats poet of the 20th century.
The best the best the best.
What a unique voice.
One in a hundred million
"It was the shape, the shape of our love that twisted me" THESE alternative lyrics have me shook. Leonard Cohen, eternally grateful to your poetry sir #RIP Sculptor of Feelings into Verses
Are you a Go-go dancer for the US marine's or do you like BjorK on the BBC?
An absolute giant amongst men x
A buffled king composing Hallelujah!
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on the hook
Like a knight bent down in some old-fashioned book
It was the shape, the shape of our love that twisted me
If I have been unkind, ooh if I have been unkind
I hope that you can find a way to let it all go right on by
if I have been untrue, if I have been untrue
It’s just that I thought a liar… I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too
Like a babe stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me
But I swear by this song
I, I swear by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all, all up to thee
I saw this beggar, he was leaning on his wooden crutch
He says to me: "Leonard, you just can’t ask for all that much"
A pretty woman standing in her darkened door
She cries out to me: "Why not ask for just a little more?"
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Seit 50 Jahren einer meiner absoluten Lieblingssings. Just great
WONDERFUL song, GREAT man, FANTASTIC voice, IMMENSE poet!!! SUBLIME Leonard!!! RIP friend!!!
It's fascinating, Leonard Cohen's voice was like wine.
It got better with age :)
Grand song, loved it since it came out❣️ This London live version: guitar and sax lovely💥💫🎶👌Leonard, Poet, sings fantastic❤️🌹👌🌞
Brilliant musicians
This has to be the greatest version ever. One of my favorite songs of all time..❤
Soulful 💯 touches us in the deepest way. Regret never having opportunity to see him live.
my fave of his and him being older is even better!
Notice the respect! Taking off his hat when a solo artists perform.
A master of word's a great poet will be remembered by our generation and beyond
He just kept getting better and better
Genius. Had the privilege of going to his live concert here in Perth years ago. Rosa Larsen
Ich habe noch nie einen Künstler auf der Bühne erlebt, der seine Begleitmusiker mehr wertschätzt, als er. Er sagte, es sei eine große Ehre, dass diese Musiker ihn, der selten einen Ton trifft, begleiten. Es sehr bescheidener Mann.
i knew that this song is good, but this arrangement is amazing
Leonard Cohen = AMAZING 💗 also one of favourite songs ever. 💗
you gave it yourall leanard to who ever had ears to hear you and the masters accompanying you rest in peace and may the angels surround you god we loved you and still do
My God...this is beautiful beyond words
yes
Love this song and you Leonard. You are a beautiful soul💕💓🙏🙏💖💗🌹🥀
I have love his poetry since I was 12 - a classmate of mine introduced me to his first album.
I was hooked for ever.
The Very, Very Best version of this song, understandable Leonard wrote this song. RIP my Friend.
Dieses Lied beschreibt mein Leben. Aber in meinen tiefsten Nöten habe ich mich verstanden gefühlt! Danke Ernestine
Merci ! Comment remercier un tel homme, cet ange terrestre, d'avoir vécu à nos côtés tout au long de notre existence ? Quel honneur nous fit cet immense artiste, toute douceur et bonté !
One of the first songs of Mr Cohen I have ever heard and it was love at first hearing and it never stopped!Miss you, Mr Cohen !
Me too. This song hooked me back in the day and he's never let go since. Crying right now listening to this...
I cry every time I listen to him...so sad he's gone...I didn't get to see him live..one of the biggest regrets of my life...god bless you Mr. Cohen.
No one takes your soul, slices it,dices it, whips and purees it then hands it back with love and understanding like this man, NO ONE.
Leonard is not dead. He lives in my heart and my soul ❤
Endless thank you.. we miss you for ever
Wunderbar Leonard 👑 Danke schön .❤🌹
He never die share his music to new generations
Magnifique chanson et merveilleux poète bravo monsieur Léonard Cohen
Can't get enough of his music ..thank you again..your music lives...timeless
Puissions nous devenir aussi lumineux que la lumière, aussi aérien que le vent et aussi vaste que l'eau qui se jette dans l'océan ❣
Miss you, and our conversations old friend.🕊
This song reminds of a frien of mine, Rest in peace Donal Fordham
I love Leonard Cohen's unique music. It has a spiritual dimension I can feel.
Quel Seigneur....et Dino qui nous sort son âme dans son saxophone. Nous étions à Toulouse et à Colmar nous n'oublierons jamais. Merci Léonard
Aww He is so sweet. I love himnspiritually🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷
I love this song ❣️💓😙
Leonard you are a Dear Sweet Being 💖🙏💐😘
Wow. Just, wow!
right
Soulful, wind-whispering rendition. Simply beautiful....beautiful 💘🙏🏽
This song 💖 is so magical -. beautiful 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️
One of my any favorites of the rich amount of music that Leonard Cohen left the world as his legacy. This particular song, one of his earliest, has been covered by some of the best which spreads the depth and beauty of his lyrics even further. Have no doubt, Leonard does it the best. But listen to Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash covers just for fun.
Willie and Johnny have a lot of Soul too!
This song is unreal and is band absolutely fantastic wow
This is my daily worship!
Laprima volta che l'ho sentita avvevo 19 anni ora ne ho 72 e c' è Luca che è la mia vita..
😪 I'd listen to him all day if I could
May you rest in peace Sir Leonard Cohen. Gods love to you man
IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP HEARING!
me too. I have it on loop as I cry.
Leonard you Dear you are amazing 🤩❤️💕💗🌹🌹
Grazie di tutto Maestro.
So I just love him...
I promise you.. He is Not! Gone. He's smiling at me and you right now!!!! I have no doubt
What a voice.. And at his age. Amazing.
Very much the best version of this that will ever exist.
I was there that night 02 London, great night, great audience, amazing night. RIP Leonard, enabling hours of pleasure listen to your songs and music, brilliant. Thank you.
🤲⚘
Remembering I've never tried to be free, I'm free and I've been free except by the ones that at my back were like terrorists trying to confuse about my identity. Remembering too I' ve been always kind, tender, peaceful, legal, honest and quite brave.
J'aime trop trop trop
Uno dei più grandi interpreti e cantanti mai esistiti
No words needed
Je l'ai vu deux fois en concert, grandiose et fallait voir aussi l'amour qui émanait de lui a l'égard de ses musiciens et de ses chanteuses. C'est pas comme le pauvre bob Dylan.
This is so special!! Look at Sir Leonard's Chone lines in his face!! What a gentlemen 🚹 👏 wish he was stil alive!! O my goodnisse.
the best background vocals ever!!
Sharon Robinson co-wrote a few songs with him and was basically the leader of the backup singers. Totally worth checking her stuff out.
@@markclark1429 The other two are ... as Leonard described them ... 'the sublime Webb sisters'
What a legacy❤