Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Green Finch and Linnet Bird, artist - Mandy Patinkin. Album song Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim, in the genre Мюзиклы
Date of issue: 25.08.2008
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Green Finch and Linnet Bird |
Green finch and linnet bird, nightingale, blackbird |
How is it you sing? |
How can you jubilate, singing in cages |
Never taking wing? |
Outside, the sky waits, beckoning, beckoning |
Just beyond the bars |
How can you remain, staring at the rain |
Maddened by the stars? |
How is it you sing anything? |
How is it you sing? |
Green finch and linnet bird, nightingale, blackbird |
How is it you sing? |
Whence comes this melody, constantly flowing? |
Is it rejoicing or merely hallowing? |
Are you discussing or fussing |
Or simply dreaming? |
Are you crowing? |
Are you screaming? |
Ringdove and robinet, is it for wages? |
Singing to be sold? |
Have you decided, it’s safer in cages |
Singing when you’re told? |
My cage has many rooms, damask and dark |
Nothing there sings, not even a lark |
Larks never will, you know, when they’re captive |
Teach me to be more adaptive, ah Green finch, and linnet bird, nightingale, blackbird |
Teach me how to sing |
If I cannot fly |
Let me sing |