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Last night I listened to Argent's In Deep, and I noticed two small things about two songs.
"God Gave Rock and Roll to You"
The first line of the first verse is "Love your friend and love your neighbor," and the "Love your neighbor" part is a quote from the Bible. I think it's actually in a couple places, but this is the first one I thought of:
But when the Pharisees heard that he [Jesus] had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:34-40)
For what it's worth, last year, I wrote about what I think are some more Biblical references (to the Sermon on the Mount) in "It's Only Money, Pt. 1" and "It's Only Money, Pt. 2" (a lot of the lyrics are the same in both songs).
"Losing Hold"
I'm surprised I hadn't noticed this before, but "slide" in the line "Let my fingers slide" has a melisma. Instead of being sung as just one syllable, it's sung as two, and the note changes from an A to a B, so the word "slide" is itself sliding between those two pitches.I found some more things about some songs from In Deep. I also (finally!) sussed out a couple lines for my transcriptions: "Gathering together a chandelier of time" in "Candles on the River" and "The thoughts in such a mind don't belong" in "Rosie."
I also figured out the part in "Be Glad" that's doubled on piano and tubular bells and - while I was figuring out the notes for that "slide" - the bass part at the very beginning of "Losing Hold." I'll get around to recording and posting those in the next few days.
