
Date of issue: 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. |
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