Friday, September 19, 2025

"Julie Don't Live Here"

The alliteration in the line "A town I knew so well, but it seemed so strange" in "Julie Don't Live Here" provides a small sense of degree.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

"Rain Is Falling"

Near the beginning of "Rain Is Falling," there are pizzicati in the string part.  This is a technique that's often used to portray raindrops musically, which obviously fits the theme of the song.

Additionally, the first two notes establish a pattern of descending pairs, so there's even a picture of the "falling."  The part is something like this:

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

"Ticket to the Moon"

"Ticket to the Moon" starts with the lines "Remember the good old 1980s / When things were so uncomplicated."  Time is from 1981, though, so this remark is obviously a sort of ironic nostalgia.  That the lines have only a slant rhyme (and a strained one at that) seems to hint that the sentiment isn't genuine.

In a small way, the alliterative "so soon" in the line "I'll be rising high above the Earth so soon" gives a sense of degree.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

"Twilight"

I listened to Time again last week and noticed a handful of features.

In the repeated line "I only meant to stay a while" at ~2:53 in "Twilight," "while" has an echo effect applied to it, and because the word has this sort of elongation, there's a sense of duration.