A number of years ago, I wrote about the lines "It's either real, or it's a dream / There's nothing that is in between" in "Twilight." To some degree, the meaning of "there's nothing that is in between" is mirrored by the melody because it's entirely conjunct, with nothing else "in between" those pitches.
I listened to Time yester-day, and I realized that the same is also true of the rhythm here. There are no rests in between the notes, and there's no break in between the two lines of the couplet.