"On the Run"

Last night, I figured out most of the chords for "On the Run" (up to ~2:56), and while playing along to the recording, I noticed a couple features in the first verse.

The first two lines are "Whatever I do / Wherever I go."  Both "whatever" and "wherever" are sung to the phrase G F E.  Each syllable is sung to a different pitch, and as a whole, the pitches span nearly an octave (the F is above the G), both of which give a musical sense of the span of possibility of "whatever" and "wherever."

I also noticed that in the lines "The same afterglow / Is keepin' me low," the "low" is sung with a descending melisma (E D C), musically giving a sense of its meaning.

"I'm Leaving You"

I've been going through some old notes I never got around to writing about, and I found one from about two years ago about "I'm Leaving You."  In the line "I found somebody new, and I'm leaving you," the "leaving" is sung with a melisma (F E D E), musically giving a sense of movement (although it might be more metaphorical than literal).  "Leaving you" is also repeated at the end of the song, and the last time, it has a slightly different melisma (D E F E).