"Show Me the Way"

I listened to Breathe Out, Breathe In yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Show Me the Way."  In the lines "I'm sorry now / For all that I've done" (that's how they're formatted in the liner notes), the phrase "all that I've done" is sung to notes of all different pitches (spanning a fifth:  D C Bb G), giving a sense of this entirety.

"Play It for Real" and "Show Me the Way"

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I have a list of about twelve things I have to look into and possibly write about.  Two days ago, I checked one of them and confirmed that there's a chromatic bass part in "Play It for Real."  In the second half of the choruses, during "When you feel how you feel / There's no deal to reveal," the bass goes chromatically from F to D.

But then I checked my list, and I'd actually written down "Show Me the Way."  So I checked that, and it too has a chromatic bass line.  During the "If I bleed..." parts, there's an initial G before a chromatic descent from F to C.  It goes up again (from that C to D to G) before repeating that chromatic phrase.