Bird On A Wire
from Amis Chemin by Geneviève Jodoin
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Un jour à l’émission Belle et Bum, Nadine Turbide et moi avons joué Hallelujah de Leonard Cohen pour la comédienne Anne-Marie Cadieux. Ce soir-là, je vous l'avoue, je ne sais pas ce qui s'est passé. La douce pensée d'être supportée par l'enfant que je portais? Un parfait alignement des astres? Un simple instant magique? La musique et les mots d’un chef-d’oeuvre? Je ne le saurai jamais. Tout ce que je sais à ce jour, c'est qu'il ne se passe pas une semaine sans que quelqu'un me parle de ce moment. L'étincelle dans les yeux des gens qui m'abordent me rappelle à chaque fois pourquoi je fais ce métier-là. Léonard Cohen a écrit un tas de chefs-d’oeuvre et j’avais le goût d’amener les gens à en découvrir un autre.
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.
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.
Oh But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make, 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.
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.
Oh But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make, 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.
credits
from Amis Chemin,
released April 26, 2011
(Aaron Neville & Leonard Cohen)
Arrangements : geneviève Jodoin / Nadine Turbide
Piano : Nadine Turbide
(Aaron Neville & Leonard Cohen)
Arrangements : geneviève Jodoin / Nadine Turbide
Piano : Nadine Turbide
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Apr 2011 -
Mar 2009
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