"You Can Never Go Home"

In "You Can Never Go Home," the line "Turning my back on the past" is sung to a melody that illustrates this sentiment.  There's a descent for "Turning my back on the" (D C# B A G E), but then the melody jumps up a fourth (to an A) for "past."  Instead of descending from beginning to end, there's a reversal of direction there, which musically mirrors "turning my back" in the lyrics.