Thursday, November 14, 2019

"Nervous"

I listened to Long Distance Voyager on Tuesday and noticed a small feature in "Nervous."  In the lines "Would you turn away" and "Would you walk away," the "away"s are sung with a melisma (E E F#), musically giving a sense of movement.

While I don't really have anything to say about it, I also want to point out the nice parallelism in the lines "Don't question faith / Don't answer lies."