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I played through parts of "Maybe after He's Gone" last night, and I later realized that there's more to the line "her smile, her tears are part of me."
I initially noticed this in January, but I didn't explain it that well. Back, then, I noticed that the melody for "her smile" goes up (G to C) and the melody for "her tears" goes down (G to E). So then I realized that the happy element has a rising melody, and the sad one has a falling melody.
But last night, after playing through it again, I noticed that there's also a sort of resemblance as far as shape goes. The corners of the mouth move up when it smiles, just like the rising melody from G to C. And tears fall from the eyes, just as the melody falls from G to E (which - incidentally - I think is a minor third, which helps to emphasize that sadness, since minor keys and intervals are often perceived as sad).
