Lyrics Green Finch and Linnet Bird - Mandy Patinkin

Green Finch and Linnet Bird - Mandy Patinkin
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

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