The song [Bird On The Wire] is so important to me. It’s that one verse where I say that I swear by this song, and by all that I have done wrong, I’ll make it all up to thee. In that verse it’s a vow that I’ll try and redeem everything that’s gone wrong. I think I’ve made it too many times now, but I like to keep renewing it.1
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Bird On The Wire, Featuring Mitch Watkins & Neil Larsen
Prague: July 21, 2013
Video by albertnoonan
I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This video was originally posted July 10, 2015. The quotation was originally posted Nov 19, 2013 at DrHGuy.com, a predecessor of Cohencentric.
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- Cohen Regrets (1973) by Alastair Pirrie. Beat Patrol: December 30, 2008. [Originally written for the New Musical Express: March 10, 1973.] [↩]