As I was reading the lyrics for "Breathe Out, Breathe In" in The "Odessey": The Zombies in Words and Images last month, it occurred to me that there's a descending melody for the "falling" in the line "Catch the stars as they're falling." It was only recently that I lookt into this in order to find the specific notes. The melody for "they're falling" arpeggiates an A major chord in descending pitches: E C# A.
When I referenced the recording in order to write about this, I also discovered that the musical phrase to which "Watch the sun go down" is sung descends (F# F# E D C#), just like the sun's going down. In the next line, "Catch a little music in flight," the "flight" is sung with a melisma, starting with an E note and then moving up to an F#. Between that melisma and the ascending interval, there's something of a representation of the flying.
