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I'd realized before that the lead vocal for the chorus is almost exactly the same as a line in the mellotron part that opens and closes the song (it's two bars shorter and omits the F# whole note that's sustained under the B C B phrase because you can't sing two notes at once). This is where the notation becomes useful. The top two lines are the mellotron part (I notated each hand separately, but it wasn't until after I scanned the notation that I realized that the left hand should have been in the bass clef, so I'll have to fix that sometime). The third line is the lead vocal, and the fourth line is the harmony vocal. (I haven't figured out the high harmony part, so I couldn't notate it.) Obviously, the opening mellotron part and the first chorus don't take place simultaneously, but notating them in the way I did makes it easier to see the similarities between the one mellotron line and the lead vocal.
This is way too many words to make a simple point, but between the opening mellotron part and the first chorus, the supporting harmony changes, so the title of the song is represented musically.
The three-note phrase at the end of the opening mellotron part is also changed later in the song. It remains on mellotron, but instead of
it becomes
It's still a G A B phrase, but the rhythm changes, and the whole phrase is a measure shorter.
While recording this for my annual Odessey and Oracle, I also noticed that the finger cymbals for the last chorus are used more sparingly, so there's an-other change. At some point, I should really just notate the song in full, but I still don't know the high harmony vocal or the extra piano part (which - incidentally - is an-other musical change within the song).
