Why do you tear up at life's symphony?
and love only that which seeks to hurt you?
Beautiful music should yield more beauty
not a delight in emotions so blue
When you hear sweet harmonies ringing out
Is their great unison so hard to hear?
Do they make you want to give a great shout
to get this nuisance away from your ear?
Listen to each note ringing through the air
and how they each dance with one another
a happy parent and child are each pair
each chord a singing sister and brother
You may sing out your note the whole day long,
but without others it will make no song
Original:
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,
Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'
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