Saturday, September 25, 2021

"Help Yourself"

In "Help Yourself," there's the recurring section "But you can never change / You just keep on being you."  That this repeats without any variation illustrates the "never chang[ing]."

Saturday, September 18, 2021

"From out of Nowhere"

I have a handful of notes about From out of Nowhere to write about, and I'm going to try to write a post a week, going song by song.

I noticed a couple small features in the chorus of "From out of Nowhere":
Let me go
Let me fly
To a place that I love
Let me fly away
And start again
"Go," the first "fly," and "away" are all sung with melismas (I think they're E F# E, E F# E, and D C# B, respectively).  These all provide a musical sense of movement.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

"Alone in the Universe"

I was thinking about "Alone in the Universe" yester-day and realized that - like "When the Night Comes" - the lyrics contain the phrase "all alone" and since "all" and "alone" start with the same sound, there's a sense of the singularity of being alone.