"Another Day"

After I read the lyrics of "Breathe Out, Breathe In" in The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images and realized that "falling" descends (which I wrote about here), I listened to the Breathe Out, Breathe In album again and found something else to write about.  In "Another Day," the "crime" in "I don't want to waste my time / Fixing every crime" is sung with a melisma (to the notes F E D).  Because it's sung with more syllables than it's spoken with, there's an implication of a multitude of crimes.  It's as if multiple crimes are encapsulated in that three-syllable pronunciation.  The "every" in the same line also hints at that plurality.