Johanna:
Green finch, and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it anda sing?
How can anda jubilate
sitting in cages
never taking wing?
Outside the sky waits
beckoning!
Beckoning!
Just beyond the bars...
How can anda remain
staring at the rain
maddened oleh the stars?
How is it anda sing
anything?
How is it anda sing?
Green finch. and linnet bird,
nightingale, blackbird
How is it anda sing?
Whence comes this melody
constantly floating?
Is it rejoicing atau merely aloaming?
Are anda discussing?
atau fussing?
atau simply dreaming?
Are anda crowing?
Are anda screaming?
Ringdove and robinet
is it for wages?
bernyanyi to be sold?
Have anda decided it's safer in cages
bernyanyi when you're told?
My cage has many rooms
damask and dark...
Nothing there sings,
not even my lark.
Larks never will, anda know,
when they're captive.
Teach me to be more
adaptive.
Ah...
Green Finch, and Linnet Bird,
nightingale, blackbird,
teach me how to sing.
If I cannot fly...
Let me sing.