"Dirty to the Bone"

I listened to Alone in the Universe yester-day and noticed a few small features in some of the songs.

In "Dirty to the Bone," there's the line "She'll deceive you till the cows come home."  This may indicate a Beatle influence since the same expression is used in "When I Get Home" on A Hard Day's Night (in the line "I'm gonna love her till the cows come home").

"Dirty to the Bone"

In the line "She'll pull you in; she'll take you down" in "Dirty to the Bone," one of the vocal parts descends for "she'll take you down" (A G G E), musically giving a sense of that "tak[ing]... down."

"Dirty to the Bone"

I don't think I mentioned this here, but one of my musical projects for 2018 is to figured out at least one part for every song on Alone in the Universe.  Yester-day I figured out some parts for "Dirty to the Bone" and discovered an interesting feature.

There's a repeating guitar phrase that's something like:

And so on.

The title phrase ("dirty to the bone") is sung to this musical phrase:

These two parts consist of the same three pitches (G, B, and C), which gives the song some cohesion.

That the title phrase descends also gives a musical impression of going to the very core or - as the song puts it - "to the bone."