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This afternoon I listened to the 30th anniversary edition of the Zombies' Odessey and Oracle, and I noticed something about "Hung up on a Dream." There's an interval of a fourth between "sights" and "above" in the line "And showed me strangest clouded sights above." "Sights" is sung to an A, and the two syllables of "above" are sung to D notes. The distance between the pitches of those notes helps to give a sense of the spatial distance mentioned in the lyric.
