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In the verses of "Beechwood Park," certain words are repeated within a line, ostensibly to further the images. There's "Do you remember summer days just after summer rain" and "Do you remember golden days and golden summer sun."
Also in "Beechwood Park," there's assonance (and internal rhyme with "dark" and "park") in the line "And we would count the evening stars as the day grew dark in Beechwood Park."
If you isolate the backing vocals for the verses of "Hung up on a Dream," you can get some (perhaps relevant, perhaps irrelevant) statements: "Gentle love / turned me on to sounds unheard" and "Sometimes I think I'll never find / Gentle love."
I'm still not sure about the lyrics in "Changes," but what I currently have is:
I knew her when summer was her crown
And autumn sighed how brown her eyes
I knew her when winter was her cloakIn checking my transcription, I noticed that the poetic device here isn't line-ending rhyme, but internal rhyme: "crown" with "brown" and "cloak" with "spoke." I also noticed that the summer/autumn couplet appears two more times than the winter/spring couplet, which - along with "Do you remember summer days just after summer rain" from "Beechwood Park" - seems to emphasize summer on the album.
In spring her voice she spoke to me
"Butcher's Tale" has a very obvious domestic element:
I want to go homeI'm sort of embarrassed that I didn't think of that when I initially listed instances of home in the Zombies' songs.
Please let me go home
Go home
In "Friends of Mine," the line "It feels so good to know two people so in love, so in love" sort of parallels the line "Feels so good you're coming home soon" in "Care of Cell 44." Both are just a single line (in "Friends of Mine," I think it's technically a pre-chorus, and I believe it constitutes the entire chorus in "Care of Cell 44"), and both mention that it "feels so good."
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I also found some things in the bonus tracks.
The line "Walk in the light of day and talk the night away" from "I'll Call You Mine" is such a perfect line. There are two instances of internal rhyme ("walk" with "talk" [which, incidentally, is a line-ending rhyme in the bridge of "Care of Cell 44"] and "day" with "away") and a sort of parallelism with the temporal elements ("day" and "night").
From "Imagine the Swan," the line "And it's there in my room to remind me of you" seems to be an-other instance of the Zombies' remembering things in their songs. It's "remind" instead of "remember," but it's still a similar sentiment.
I also started paying attention to the backing vocals during this section:
For the colors are gone
You've become kind of grey
And you're not like the swan
That I knew yesterday
Now the pictures are wrongDuring the first two lines, the backing vocals are descending (the second descent starts at a lower pitch than the first, so it's a continual descent, not just a repetition of the first descent). During the third line, it's a single note, and during the last line, there are interruptions. So, taken as a whole, those backing vocals indicate the decay that the lyrics themselves are talking about ("the colors are gone / You've become kind of grey").
You've become kind of grey
I'll imagine the swan
That you were yesterday
The lyrics of "Smokey Day" are still proving to be difficult to decipher, but I did notice an instance of consonance in the line "Smokey day, hey, bring the dust of dusky evening."
And I found instances of crying and dreaming in "She Loves the Way They Love Her," although the crying seems more theatrical than emotional:
Crying, dying, sighing, whining, shining in the microphoneIt's sort of obvious, but there's assonance in that first line - "crying," "dying," & "sighing" and "whining" & "shining." That assonance is sort of present in the "time" in the second line too.
Dreaming dreams of future time when she and me are all alone
