"The Sun Will Shine on You"

I'm pretty sure I'd noticed this before, but evidently, I'd neglected to write about it.  In the line "Before you learn how to fall" in "The Sun Will Shine on You," there's quite a drop between "to" and "fall" (an octave:  F# to F#).  Musically, this illustrates that "fall[ing]."

"When the Night Comes"

I listened to Alone in the Universe recently and noticed a couple small features.  In "When the Night Comes," there's the line "When the night comes and I'm here all alone."  Because "all" and "alone" start with the same sound, there's a sense of the singularity of being alone.  Additionally, "When the night comes" is sung by multiple voices, but "and I'm here all alone" by only one.

"Ticket to the Moon"

I figured out the chords for "Ticket to the Moon" last night and noticed an interesting feature.  As I noted before, each phrase in the vocal melody in the chorus ascends, giving an impression of taking off and going to the moon.  The chords, however, descend.  It's a repeating progression of D minor | C major | Bb major | A major.  This opposition between the descending chords and the ascending vocals illustrates the narrator's conflicted feelings.  He's obligated to leave ("I paid the fare; what more can I say / It's just one-way"), and yet he would rather stay and "see the sunrise / In your eyes."  The opposite trajectories of these musical elements demonstrate that he's pulled in two different directions.