Years ago, I noted that in the lines "I don't want to waste my time / Watching ev'ry crime" in "Another Day," "crime" is sung with a melisma (F E D), giving a sense of number (for the modifying "ev'ry"). Last week, I listened to Breathe Out, Breathe In again and noticed that an-other musical element also contributes to this sense of amount: under that phrase, the bass plays notes of all different pitches, spanning nearly an octave: E A D.
When I referenced the song again in order to find those pitches, I noticed that in the line "Just a shadow over me," "shadow" really is "over me" in terms of pitch: "shadow" is sung to the notes F E, and "me" is sung to an A.
