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 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.
Leonard Cohen
I took this family portrait as part of a wedding shoot in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the shadow of Mt. St. Helens in 2008 .The family has a 150 acre parcel that was purchased before the national forest designation. So it is literally well inside the park..they being the only human inhabitants for many many miles. The cabin is the original homestead.
