Fantasy on Mozart's Andante in C Major for Flute and Orchestra (K315)
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- (repeat of section-1)
(followed by the Cadenza, so in freeform)
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- 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?
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M.J.Shute |
(2006)
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Projet Durance-Luberon (en français)
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