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Question: Did You really, I mean REALLY, take this out of this world performance in? Bird on a wire-Perla Batalla

These words are so meaningful…even after all these years Thank you Leonard Cohen. Thank you Perla Batalla for a moving rendition.

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LEONARD COHEN LYRICS

“Bird On The Wire” By Leonard Cohen

Perla Batalla, performing

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…

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2 thoughts on “Question: Did You really, I mean REALLY, take this out of this world performance in? Bird on a wire-Perla Batalla”

  1. george-b says:
    October 15, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    Pain unscalable, unquantifiable on a scale from 1-10 with faces drawn more or less happy, and some sad, pain that hides in its own shadow, become its shadow, cut the branch we’ve landed on, to rest…While all you can do is imagine being painless: for a quantum of a eternal moment may be a note, or an entire song, or a rhyme, or even an entire poem, or letting go and sharing pain free, glamorless, denuded of inhumanity, hoping that you may be understood and taken seriously, at face value, as a immortal soul in the making, as mortal body in the making, as a star in the making, as a universe in the making, as a molecule in the making, as a Rigs Bosom in the making , as a God in the making, as…

    Be Well my dear,

    Thrive!

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