Lyrics




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 harlowing?
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
Lark's 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



Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim


Sarah Rice - The Story So Far...
Album The Story So Far...
date of release
10-10-2008

1   More (End Credits)
2   The Ladies Who Lunch
3   West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): Act II: Gee, Officer Krupke
4   West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast): Act I: America
5   Old Friends
6   America
7   Tonight
8   Everything's Coming Up Roses
9   Comedy Tonight
10   There's Something About a War
11   Don't Laugh
12   Anyone Can Whistle
13   A Hero Is Coming
14   This Week, Americans
15   The Boy from ...
16   I Remember Sky
17   Another Hundred People (feat. Pamela Myers)
18   Happily Ever After
19   Broadway Baby
20   Losing My Mind
21   I'm Still Here
22   Can That Boy Fox Trot!
23   Liaisons
24   Send in the Clowns
25   Night Waltz (Love Takes Time)
26   Silly People
27   Not Quite Night
28   Prayers
29   There is No Other Way
30   Prelude: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: "Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd"
31   Green Finch and Linnet Bird
32   A Little Priest
33   The Worst Pies In London
34   Finishing the Hat
35   Agony
36   Everybody's Got the Right
37   The Ballad of Booth
38   Isn't He Something!
39   Invocation And Instructions To The Audience - from THE FROGS: ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING
40   The Two Of You
41   Class
42   Happiness
43   I Wish I Could Forget You
44   In the Movies
45   I'm All for You
46   They Asked Me Why I Believe In You
47   Truly Content
48   No, Mary Ann
49   Theme (From "Stavisky")
50   Auto Show
51   Theme (European Version)
52   Sooner or Later
53   Live Alone and Like It
54   What Can You Lose?



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