I listened to All over the World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra a couple days ago, and one of the guitar phrases in "Alright" sounded easy to figure out. I figured it out to-day (along with a few bits from "Xanadu") and realized something interesting about the song's structure.
The guitar phrase I figured out occurs after every other line in the first two verses, but it's not in the third verse at all. Significantly, the first two lines in the third verse are "It's not use thinkin' 'bout what you ain't got / Just makes you bitter." The absence of the guitar phrase here sort of represents "what you ain't got."
