The other thing I noticed when I listened to Argent's Greatest: The Singles Collection recently is in "Celebration." There's a "rise" sung to successively higher notes (B G# B' E', I think), which musically represents that "ris[ing]." I should note that I might have the lyrics wrong here. When I lookt at my transcription, I had "In the sound of the night we can ride." Really, I think Argent sings just "ri..." with the rest of the word left unpronounced, but I feel "rise" is more likely than "ride." (Transcribing the lyrics of "Celebration" has given me a lot of difficulty, more than most Argent songs.)
When I drafted this post Sunday night, I also noticed that the "forever" at the end of the second verse ("A ring of hands forever") is sung with a melisma (A G# G# F# E), giving a musical sense of that long length of time.
