What do these birds know about the war?

What do these birds know about the war?
What do these birds know about the darkness?

It doesn’t matter whether they live in the dark cold forests
or whether they see the streets in the day light

What do these birds know about?

They couldn’t sing the saddest songs for heart aches
They couldn’t pour the bitterest drinks for the heart-ached
They couldn’t sing for the song’s sake
They wouldn’t
What do these birds know about the war?

It’s spring (Can you see them on the branches?)
It’s not wartime (Can you see them on the black of the streets?)
It’s wartime (Can you see them bathing in fountains?)
What do they sing for? Who do they sing to?
What do these birds know about the wartimes?

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Editado pela última vez: 15 fev. 2009