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Green Finch and Linnet bird |
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Nightingale, Blackbird |
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How is it you sing? |
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How can you jubilate |
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Sitting in cages |
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Never taking wing? |
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Outside the sky waits |
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Beckoning, beckoning |
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Just beyond the bars |
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How can you remain |
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Staring at the rain |
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Maddened by the stars? |
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How is it you sing anything? |
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How is it you sing? |
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Green Finch and Linnet bird |
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Nightingale, Blackbird |
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How is it you sing? |
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Whence comes this melody |
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Constantly floating? |
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Is it rejoicing or merely a loaming? |
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Are you discussing? |
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Or fussing |
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Or simply dreaming? |
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Are you crowing? |
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Are you screaming? |
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Ring dove and Robinet |
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Is it for wages? |
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Singing to be sold? |
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Have you decided it's safer in cages |
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Singing when you're told? |
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My cage has many rooms |
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Damask and dark |
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Nothing there sings |
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Not even my Lark |
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Larks never will, you know |
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When they're captive |
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Teach me to be more adaptive |
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Green Finch and Linnet bird |
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Nightingale, Blackbird |
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Teach me how to sing |
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If I cannot fly |
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Let me sing |
