Is it the singer or the song?

Here is a curious thought and a whimsical reflection on singing.

With singing and sentient beings - is it the singer or the song? Does a bird suddenly take thought and decide to sing or does the song ‘sing’ the bird? Does a happy little child, singing as it plays know what it sings or is it happy and the ‘song’ just arises from within?

Is the song always there and just needs an outlet? Is the ‘song’ happiness and contentment; is the ‘song’ part of the psyche of all sentient beings – birds, whales and other aquatic mammals, some forest dwelling mammals and human beings (I am sure there are other sentient beings which ‘sing’ in one form or another that I have missed – frogs and crickets maybe?). I don’t know – maybe the ‘song’ is part of the ‘collective unconscious’ that (possibly) is behind all the activities of all sentient beings.

Just a thought.