"Baby I Apologize"

I listened to ELO II this morning and noticed a small feature in "Baby I Apologize," which is included as a bonus track.  There's a temporal merism in the line "Love her in the mornin' and the evenin', too."

"Danger Ahead"

Yester-day, ELO's social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram) posted that it was the fortieth anniversary of the release of Secret Messages.  I didn't have time to listen to the album yester-day, but I listened to it this morning and noticed a small feature in "Danger Ahead":  for most of the verses, the vocal is centered in the stereo picture, but in the second half of the third verse, starting with the line "With her entourage on either side," there are two sets of vocals, with one panned left and one panned right to portray "on either side" in a musical way.

"Kuiama"

Recently, I watched this performance of "Kuiama" on The Midnight Special on 29 June 1973:

I'm pretty sure this is the same backing track as the studio version (although edited for length) but with live vocals.

This probably isn't a very significant point, but yester-day, I realized that one of the verses exhibits anacoluthon, a rhetorical effect that's basically just an interruption in the logical flow of a sentence.  In the song, it appears in the lines "It's just that I mean - well, that is to say / That I'm trying to explain, but I'll start again."

When I watched the video again in order to embed it here, I also noticed the line "No horsemen in the night a-ridin' through your dreams and tearin' at your life" (I'm not sure where or if there should be line breaks there).  This is an allusion to the four horsemen of the apocalypse in Revelation 6:1-8.