"To Julia (For When She Smiles)"

When I listened to Into the Afterlife a couple days ago, I also had a small realization about "To Julia (For When She Smiles)."  The reason that Julia was the name chosen for the song may be that it's related to July.  In any case, it's an appropriate name for the song's summertime setting. 

"I Could Spend the Day"

I listened to Into the Afterlife yester-day and noticed a couple things.  I'd previously noted the internal rhyme in one line of "I Could Spend the Day" ("deeper sleep"), but I realized the significance:  this extra rhyme (in addition to the normal line-ending rhymes) provides a sense of that greater degree, highlighting the comparative adjective.

"She Loves the Way They Love Her"

I was reviewing the bass part in the Into the Afterlife version of "She Loves the Way They Love Her" recently, and two days ago, I was thinking specifically about the line "Dreaming dreams of future time when she and me are all alone."  This may be just coincidental (the contexts are quite different), but a similar cognate accusative construction occurs in Joel 2:28, later cited in Acts 2:17:  "your old men shall dream dreams."

While verifying the lyrics yester-day, I also realized that since "lie" in the line "She loves ev'ry sweet-talkin' lie" is sung with a melisma (A E), there's a sense of number (for "ev'ry").