Friday, April 30, 2021

"Misty Roses"

A couple days ago, Colin Blunstone's social media pages posted a few lines from "Misty Roses."  I was thinking about the song this morning and realized that "lovely" in the recurring phrase "too lovely to leave alone" is sung with a melisma (Gb F Eb), giving a sense of degree (for "too").  In referencing the recording, I discovered that the same is true for the "lovely" in the line "Too good to last, but too lovely not to try."  "Last" in that line is also sung with a melisma (I think it's C Ab), giving a sense of the word's meaning.