"Knowing You"

In the line "And after all the loneliness to know that you are near" in "Knowing You," "all" is doubled by a second voice, lending a slight sense of this entirety.

New World

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Collection Audit:

A couple days ago I listened to the Zombies' New World album, and I noticed two things. 

"Nights on Fire"

I'm not fully convinced of this myself, but I think the line "Only believe and the door will open wide" might be a reference to the Bible, specifically "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened" (Matthew 7:7-8).  A couple of the other songs mention Heaven (although perhaps not in a religious sense), which seems to strengthen the possibility of this being an intentional Biblical reference. 

"Knowing You"

In the line "Facing up to every day now, I will never be alone" there's a harmony part for "be alone," so the musical arrangement mirrors the lyric.  The speaker/singer says that he won't be alone, and there's an-other voice there to demonstrate that.

 Some more things I noticed about Zombies songs while doing Collection Audit.