Green Finch And Linnet Bird Lyrics - Singles - Mandy Patinkin

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 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