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? 

My cage has many rooms, 
Damask and dark 
Nothing there sings, 
Not even my lark 
Larks never will, you know 
When their captive 
Teach me to be more adaptive 
Ahhhhhhhh 

Green finch and linnet bird 
Nightingale, blackbird 
Teach me how to sing 
If I cannot fly 
Let me sing 
 


                          Thanks to Julie for these lyrics