The Bird in the Cage 2024.05.24
The Bird in the Cage
[Intro]
[Verse]
あるさむい冬の日
飼っていたインコが
籠から飛び出して逃げた
くちばしで扉を開ける方法を見つけ
たまたま開いていた小屋の戸から
外の世界へ
辺りは一面の銀世界
えさなんかどこにもない
籠の中の鳥という例えは
ネガティブなことに使われることが多いわ
でも本当にそうかしら
籠の中の鳥はふしあわせなの?
そうね、やせいの鳥をかごに入れたら
それはふしあわせだわ
では、はじめから籠の中で飼われていた鳥はどうかしら?
食べ物に困らず一生を終えることは
幸せなの?ふしあわせなの?
あしたにどうりを知ったら夕べに死すとも可なりというわ?
未知だった広い世界を知れたら幸せ?
[Outro]
籠の中を飛び出した鳥は、
近くの木のえだにとまっていた
こちらへ来る様子もなく
ただ遠くを見つめていた
The Bird in the Cage
One cold winter day
The parakeet I had been keeping
Escaped from the cage and ran away
He found a way to open the door with his beak
And went out into the world
Through the open door of the shed
The world was covered in snow
There was no food anywhere
The metaphor of a bird in a cage
Is often used for negative things
But is that really true?
Is a bird in a cage unhappy?
Well, if you put a wild bird in a cage
That would be unhappy
So what about a bird that has been raised in a cage from the beginning?
Is it happy to live its whole life in a cage without worrying about food?
Is it happy to know the truth in the morning and die at dusk?
Is it happy to know the vast world that it didn’t know before?
The bird that flew out of the cage
Was perched on a branch of a nearby tree two days later
He showed no sign of coming this way
He just stared into the distance
