"Without Someone"

I listened to Balance of Power yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Without Someone."  The phrase "All alone" in the line "All alone, no one around" alliterates, and since each word starts with the same sound, there's something of a sense of the singularity of being alone.

"Without Someone"

I listened to Balance of Power yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Without Someone."  The line "It hardly moves at all" (referring to "the clock staring from the wall" from the previous line) is sung to a paucity of pitches, just A Bb and C.  The musical phrase is limited, and this gives a sense of that "hardly mov[ing]."

"Alone in the Universe"

Back in October, I figured out some of the bass part in "Alone in the Universe."  I noticed something about it, but I kept forgetting to write about it (plus I had to verify it).

A good portion of the bass part has this rhythm:

This is also the rhythm for much of the bass part in "Without Someone" from Balance of Power.