A couple days ago (26 March), I happened to look at a clock when it was 12:29 (a.m.). The Neil MacArthur song ("Twelve Twenty Nine") popped into my head, and I realized something about the last line of each verse ("'Cause at twelve twenty nine today's taken my only love away"). The "away" is sung with a melisma (B B A G#), which musically provides a sense of movement, namely "today's tak[ing] my only love away."
In figuring out a bit of the vocal melody while writing this post last night, I also discovered that there's an accidental for "taken." The song is in E major, but that "taken" is sung to a C natural. That foreign tonality intensifies "taken... away" into something like "wrenched away."
