"Hold Your Head Up" b/w "Closer to Heaven"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (5 June 1972), Argent's "Hold Your Head Up" (3:15 edit) b/w "Closer to Heaven" (Epic 5-10852) was released in the U.S. and Canada.

"Closer to Heaven"

Yester-day, I listened to All Together Now to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the release of "Hold Your Head Up" b/w "Closer to Heaven" and "Keep on Rollin'" ("Closer to Heaven" is also included on the CD as a bonus track).  I noticed a small feature about "Closer to Heaven":  at ~2:35, there's an upward key change (I think it's C major to D major), and this musically illustrates the title line.

"Hold Your Head Up" b/w "Closer to Heaven" and "Keep on Rollin'"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (2 October 1971), Argent's "Hold Your Head Up" b/w "Closer to Heaven" and "Keep on Rollin'" (Epic S EPC 9315) was released in the U.K.

"Closer to Heaven"

I listened to All Together Now this morning and noticed some things, but I'll have to go and verify that I haven't already noticed and written about them.  For now, here's a post about "Closer to Heaven," which is included as a bonus track and which I haven't written about before.

About halfway through the song, there are the lines "We come here with nothing, Lord / That's the way we go."  Like some lines in other songs by Russ Ballard, these seem Biblically informed.  Specially, they resemble part of Job 1:21:  "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return."  Although the specific images are different, the idea and structure are the same.