Green Finch and Linnet Bird

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