Soundtrack Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street 




Johanna


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 floating?


Is it rejoicing or merely aloaming?


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.


Larks never will, you 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.

Thanks to Tony for lyrics