"Care of Cell 44"

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I was just thinking about "Care of Cell 44" - as you do when you're about to go to sleep - and I realized that the first part of the first verse is a bit fugal.

The song starts off with that piano riff, and that same riff is played in the bass part later.  After that exchange, it's not fugal because it doesn't develop anymore - that phrase just stays in the bass for the rest of the song.

But that first part - the piano playing that phrase and then the bass playing that phrase with a different piano part on top of it, that's fugal.

Well, it is as long as my understanding of fugues is accurate.