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Fantasy on Mozart's Andante in C Major for Flute and Orchestra (K315)

1:
If love is pain, as they say,
Why do I feel so well?
The way that I do?
If love is blind, as many say it is,
Why do I see so very clearly now?
If loving is bad, as they say it is,
Why do I feel so very good inside?
If love's like that,
Why did I crave it so?
Why do I wish to sing so much?
And many others say the same.
I wonder what such time and effort can be all about.
If love's like that.
If love is so ill, so very, very ill,
Then why do I smile and laugh?
If love's a weight,
Why do larks sing
For me, for me,
Up into ever-greater heights?
2:
But then, it's true, there is another side:
If love is kind,
Then why do folks cry inside?
And if love is true,
Why are hearts deceived?
And trod right down, in clay and mud,
Where, to the deepest depths, they sink.
And if love is bliss,
Why are hearts betrayed?
And left to fester with such grievous pain?
And if love is joy,
Why can it feel so bad?
I wonder why it's so.
If love's like that.
3:
(repeat of section-1)

(followed by the Cadenza, so in freeform)
4:
If love is pain,
It's still better than numbness without.
If love is so blind,
It still gives such insight.
If love's a heavy weight,
It's one I bear with joy.
If love is bad...
No, it cannot be so.
For love, when it strikes,
Is charged with joy,
And gives meaning to life,
And is the very thing to be sought.
If love were pain, as they say,
Why do I feel well?
The way that I do now?
M.J.Shute
(2006)
Projet Durance-Luberon (en français)
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