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.
