Green Finch And Linnet Bird

JohannaGreen finch, and linnet bird,Nightingale, blackbird,How is it you sing?How can you jubilatesitting in cagesnever taking wing?Outside the sky waitsbeckoning!Beckoning!Just beyond the bars...How can you remain staring at the rainmaddened by the stars?How is it you singanything?How is it you sing?Green finch. and linnet bird,nightingale, blackbirdHow is it you sing?Whence comes this melodyconstantly floating?Is it rejoicing or merely aloaming?Are you discussing?Or fussing?Or simply dreaming?Are you crowing?Are you screaming?Ringdove and robinetis it for wages?Singing to be sold?Have you decided it's safer in cagessinging when you're told?My cage has many roomsdamask and dark...Nothing there sings,not even my lark.Larks never will, you know,when they're captive.Teach me to be moreadaptive.Ah...Green Finch, and Linnet Bird,nightingale, blackbird,teach me how to sing.If I cannot fly...Let me sing.