Monday, July 30, 2018

"Send It"

I forgot about this (more than once, even), but the reason I've been thinking about Balance of Power recently is that way back on 6 July I realized that the "way up above" in the line "The sun still shines way up above" at the beginning of "Send It" ascends (C# C# E F#, I think), musically representing that "up above."

In looking at the song now, I realized something else.  Each of the verses ends with the lines "If you see my dream / Send it back home to me."  The "me" is sung to an A note, and the chord progression there moves to an A major.  The song itself it in A major, so there's both the tonic note (A) and the tonic chord (A major) to represent that "home" musically.