"Friends of Mine"

Yester-day, I was looking into "Friends of Mine," and while my initial notion didn't pan out, I noticed something much more interesting.

The opening guitar phrases are something like this:

They bear a strong resemblance to the opening Pianet phrases in "Whenever You're Ready," which are something like this:

(They continue for an-other two measures, but I felt this was enough for comparison.)

The exact intervals differ slightly, but both phrases trace the same general four-note arc.  The rhythms are basically the same, too, although they start in different places in the measure.

"Celebration"

I listened to Ring of Hands a couple days ago and noticed a small feature in "Celebration."  In the line "Lift the veil of your joy to my eye," the words "lift the veil" are sung to an ascending group of notes (E F# G#), musically illustrating this "lift[ing]."  (It wasn't until hearing the version by Sparrow on The Chris White Experience Volume Three that I understood this line.)

When I found the specific pitches, I also noticed that "joy" later in the line is sung with a melisma (G# F# E), and since the word isn't constrained to a single note, there's a sense of this exuberance.

"Don't Go Away"

I listened to I Love You yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Don't Go Away."  In the line "But today I can't feel so sure," the phrase "so sure" exhibits alliteration, and the repetition involved here lends a slight sense of degree.