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Our Lady Peace

Bird on a Wire

Lyrics

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
And if I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you let it go by
And if I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never for you

Like a baby, stillborn
Like Africa, without any hope
It's time that we make this up to you
And I swear that we're wrong
We're good people, we have done wrong
And it's time that we make this up to you
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "don't we ask for so much?"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She said to me, "We should ask for more"

And I swear by this song
We're good people and we have done wrong
And Africa, well it's time we make this up to you

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