Sweeney Todd - Green Finch And Linnet Bird 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?

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