"Time to Move"

I was thinking about "Time to Move" yester-day (almost certainly because a clip of a live performance was recently posted on Colin Blunstone's Instagram account) and had a small realization about it.

In the lines "You never see the real thing / You can't tell it from the fake," the phrases "real thing" and "fake" are sung to pitches that are roughly an octave apart ("real thing" is sung to A G, and I think "fake" is sung with a melisma, to Bb G), so the large interval between the pitches emphasizes the contrast between "real" and "fake," despite the narrator's claim that the two are indistinguishable.

When I found the specific notes, I also noticed that the Bb to which "fake" is sung is an accidental in the song's G major.  In a way, this foreign tonality illustrates the word's meaning.

"Tell Me How"

Last week, I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD reissue of Planes and Never Even Thought in order to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the "When You Close Your Eyes" b/w "Good Guys Don't Always Win" single (although only "Good Guys Don't Always Win" is on Planes), and yester-day, I belatedly had a small realization about the cover of Buddy Holly's "Tell Me How."

"Love" (usually with the possessive "your" attached) appears in every line of the first verse (repeated as the third and fourth verses):

Tell me how to keep your love

You know how I need your love

Tell me how you'll* keep the love within your arms from me

That "your love" is repeated so frequently illustrates its importance for the narrator, emphasizing how "I need your love."

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*I think it's "you'll" in the first verse but just "you" in the third and fourth.

"Time's Running Out"

I listened to Colin Blunstone's Ennismore yester-day, but even before I listened to it, I had a small realization about "Time's Running Out" while looking at the track listing.  The song is penultimate on the album, so in a way, even its position in the sequencing illustrates the title sentiment.

"When You Close Your Eyes" b/w "Good Guys Don't Always Win"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (11 September 1976), Colin Blunstone's "When You Close Your Eyes" b/w "Good Guys Don't Always Win" (Epic S EPC 4576) was released in the U.K.

As far as I know, "When You Close Your Eyes" hasn't been re-released.

"Keep on Rollin'"

I listened to All Together Now yester-day and noticed a small feature in the line "Make me feel so strong" in "Keep on Rollin'."  As I've noted before with similar phrases, the repetition involved in the alliterative "so strong" lends a slight sense of degree.