"Laredo Tornado"

I listened to Eldorado yester-day and noticed a small thing about "Laredo Tornado."  The musical section beginning at ~2:27 is rather sparse, in terms of instruments and number of notes.  I think this is meant to illustrate musically the absence mentioned in the lyrics there:  "What can you do / When your dream world is gone / And your friends and lovers, too?"

"Do Ya"

This morning I listened to a live performance of ELO from 1976 and realized that the first two verses of "Do Ya" exhibit anaphora.  "I've seen" is repeated in the first verse:

Well, in this life I've seen ev'rything I can see, woman

I've seen lovers flyin' through the air hand in hand

I've seen babies dancing in the midnight sun

And I've seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above

I've seen old men cryin' at their own grace sides

And I've seen pigs all sitting, watching picture slides

But I've never seen nothin' like you

And "I heard" in the second:

Well, I heard the crowd singin' out of tune

As they sat and sang "Auld Lang Syne" by the light of the moon

I heard the preachers bangin' on the drums

And I heard the police playin' with their guns

But I never heard nothin' like you

The repeated "I've seen" and "I heard" illustrate the amount and variety of the speaker/singer's experiences and emphasize the contrast between all of them and "you."