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"Green Finch and Linnet Bird" 是斯蒂芬·桑德海姆(Stephen Sondheim)创作的歌曲,收录在他1973年的音乐剧《小夜曲》(A Little Night Music)中。这首歌通过生动的鸟类比喻,探讨了爱情与关系中的复杂情感。音乐剧本身以其精巧的歌词和优美的旋律闻名,"Green Finch and Linnet Bird" 作为其中的经典曲目,展示了桑德海姆对情感细腻描绘的卓越才华。该曲常被演唱会和音乐剧爱好者所喜爱,体现了其在现代音乐剧中的重要地位。
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
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Green finch and linnet bird
Nightingale, blackbird
Teach me how to sing
If I cannot fly let me sing