Friday, April 8, 2022

"I'll Spend My Life with You"

Last night, I figured out the chords for "I'll Spend My Life with You," and then I noticed a couple features.

In the line "I'm gonna turn around, head for home," "home" is sung to a C note, and at the same time, the chord progression moves to a C major.  The song is in C major, so these are the tonic note and tonic chord, respectively, and they provide a musical sense of coming home.

When I referenced my transcription of the lyrics, I also noticed the phrase "all alone" in the line "I'm in a crowd, yet I'm all alone."  Because these two words start with the same sound, there's a sense of the exclusivity of being alone.

Monday, April 4, 2022

"Daily Nightly"

This morning, I was thinking about "Daily Nightly," and I realized that the words "glitters glibly" exhibit both alliteration and assonance and that there's a balance between them because they have the same number of syllables.  (I can't decipher the first few words of the line, but the rest of it is "look down upon a world that glitters glibly.")  These features attract attention to themselves, so in a way, they act as the verbal equivalent of that "glitter[ing]."