Green Finch and Linnet Bird

[00:04.56] Green finch and linnet bird,
[00:06.35] Nightingale, blackbird,
[00:09.11] How is it you sing?
[00:12.77] How can you jubilate,
[00:15.42] Sitting in cages,
[00:17.29] Never taking wing?
[00:20.83] Outside the sky waits,
[00:23.62] Beckoning, beckoning,
[00:25.47] Just beyond the bars.
[00:29.99] How can you remain,
[00:30.80] Staring at the rain,
[00:32.61] Maddened by the stars?
[00:38.02] How is it you sing
[00:41.62] Anything?
[00:42.50] How is it you sing?
[00:47.29] Green finch and linnet bird,
[00:50.16] Nightingale, blackbird,
[00:51.36] How is it you sing?
[00:55.84] Whence comes this melody constantly flowing?
[01:00.41] Is it rejoicing or merely halloing?
[01:04.07] Are you discussing or fussing
[01:06.71] Or simply dreaming?
[01:11.22] Are you crowing?
[01:15.74] Are you screaming?
[01:22.14] Ringdove and robinet,
[01:24.81] Is it for wages,
[01:26.65] Singing to be sold?
[01:30.28] Have you decided it's
[01:32.23] Safer in cages,
[01:34.06] Singing when you're told?
[01:38.65] My cage has many rooms,
[01:40.49] Damask and dark.
[01:42.22] Nothing there sings,
[01:44.06] Not even my lark.
[01:48.57] Larks never will, you know,
[01:50.35] When they're captive.
[01:52.16] Teach me to be more adaptive.
[02:04.00] Green finch and linnet bird,
[02:06.77] Nightingale, blackbird,
[02:08.53] Teach me how to sing.
[02:13.10] If I cannot fly,
[02:20.37] Let me sing
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