From the recording How The Caged Bird Sings
Lyrics
Maya showed me how the caged bird sing
Showed me how, how to give everything
From the break of dawn with a heavy heart
Looking through these bars, my world falling apart
The cage bird singing, sweet as honey stinging,
chirpin freedom from deep down within
With feathers bruised, and battered dreams torn
In these empty rooms where hope feels worn
When Maya showed me how the caged birds sing - I started to give again
Now I know, now I know how the caged birds sing
Through songs of sorrow, through the pain that life can bring
Locked in a prison… where shadows play
singing to the moon, remembering yesterday
Maya showed me how the caged birds sing, I started to live again..