Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Greenfinch and Linnet Bird , by - Stephen Sondheim. Song from the album Sweeney Todd, in the genre МюзиклыRelease date: 23.01.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Greenfinch and Linnet Bird |
| Green finch and linnet bird, |
| Nightingale, blackbird, |
| How is it you sing? |
| How can you jubilate, |
| Sitting 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 halloing? |
| 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 my lark. |
| Larks never will, you know, |
| When they’re captive. |
| Teach me to be more adaptive. |
| Green finch and linnet bird, |
| Nightingale, blackbird, |
| Teach me how to sing. |
| If I cannot fly, |
| Let me sing. |