"What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"

I recently listened to Colin Blunstone's Collected again.  I have many notes (some from previous times I listened to the album) that I'm going to wait to write about until I've become more familiar with those songs, but over the next few days, I'll have some posts about small features I noticed in the songs I already know fairly well.

Significantly, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" doesn't resolve.  The version on Collected just fades out, and even the live versions by the Zombies (on Odessey and Oracle {Revisited} and Live at Metropolis Studios) don't end on the tonic.  (I'm pretty sure the song is in Ab major but the live versions end with a C note.)  This lack of a definite musical conclusion matches the open-ended nature of the titular question.

"What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"

Yester-day I was thinking about "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" (included on Colin Blunstone's Collected), and I realized a couple things about it.

"Dreams" in the first line ("As I walk this land of broken dreams") and "hearted" in the title line are both sung with melismas (C Bb Ab and D C Bb, respectively), musically giving a sense of being "broken."

Earlier to-day, I realized that there's also a significant melisma in the second line:  "I have visions of many things."  "Things" is sung to the notes Bb Ab, so while it's a smaller melisma, there's still something of a sense of that "many."