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 hallooing? Are you discussing or fussing Or simply dreaming? Are you crowing? Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) ‘Green finch and linnet bird’ (Johanna’s song) Texte de Stephen Sondheim 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. Larks never will, you know, When they're captive. Teach me to be More adaptive Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h Green finch and linnet bird Nightingale, blackbird Teach me how to sing. If I cannot fly Let me sing. 32 OISEAUX DE PASSAGE
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