Thursday, July 18, 2024

"Across the Border"

I listened to Out of the Blue yester-day and noticed a small connection between the lyrics and chord progression in "Across the Border" that I think I'd been dimly aware of before.  Under the line "I gotta move down the line" in the first verse, the chord progression is A minor | G major | F major, so there's a musical representation of "mov[ing] down" (because the chords descend) and, in a way, even of "the line" (because it's a conjunct progression).