"Pure Love"

This is just a small point about "Pure Love."  One of the lines starts with "Lovely lady," and I realized that this has both alliteration and internal rhyme.  Combined, these poetic effects help to portray that "lovel[iness]."

"Tragedy"

When I listened to All Together Now recently, I noticed some significant melismas in "Tragedy."  In the first verse, "away" in the line "And it's blowing away" is sung to the phrase B B A (with some vibrato on the A note).  When the first verse is repeated as the third verse, the articulation is slightly different: B B C B A (still with vibrato on the A note).  Musically, both give a sense of movement.

I still can't decipher the full lyric, but in the second verse, the phrase "bring you down" is sung to a descending group of notes (C B B A), illustrating that "down."  To emphasize this, "down" itself is sung with a melisma (B A, again with vibrato on the A note).

Additionally, in the first line of chorus ("Tragedy is on the rise"), the "is on the rise" ascends (E G A A), musically illustrating this "ris[ing]."

"Hold Your Head Up"

I'd previously noticed that the titular phrase in "Hold Your Head Up" ascends (in some instances, at least), but when I listened to All Together Now yester-day, I discovered that the "get you down" part of the line "And if it's bad, don't let it get you down" is sung to a descending phrase (G F# D), musically representing that "down."

"Closer to Heaven"

I listened to All Together Now this morning and noticed some things, but I'll have to go and verify that I haven't already noticed and written about them.  For now, here's a post about "Closer to Heaven," which is included as a bonus track and which I haven't written about before.

About halfway through the song, there are the lines "We come here with nothing, Lord / That's the way we go."  Like some lines in other songs by Russ Ballard, these seem Biblically informed.  Specially, they resemble part of Job 1:21:  "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return."  Although the specific images are different, the idea and structure are the same.

"When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes"

I was thinking about "When the Lovelight Starts Shining through Her Eyes" this morning, and I realized a small feature in the third verse.  It's actually the same thing I noticed in "Bring It on Home to Me" back in June.  "Mind" in the line "Hopin' she hadn't changed her mind" is sung with a melisma (F# E C#, I think), and because the word is sung to more than one pitch, there's a musical sense of the shifting of "chang[ing] her mind."