"True Story"

Last week, I learned the chords for "True Story," and I realized something about the song I hadn't noticed while just listening to it.  I'm pretty sure that much of the guitar part uses the Bo Diddley beat.  In an effort to confirm this, I listened to all of the Bo Diddley in my music collection and did some research on the internet, but I couldn't find anything that defined it clearly enough to make me confident in my assessment.

"Watching and Waiting"

Yester-day I figured out the chords for "Watching and Waiting," and I noticed a musical feature that connects to the lyrics in this section:

'Cause here there's lots of room for doing
The things you've always been denied
So look and gather all you want to
There's no one here to stop you trying

The chord progression here is |: G major | D minor | G major | F major | C major | D major :|.  I'm pretty sure the song is in C major, so that D major chord contains a F# accidental.  That foreign tonality musically represents "the things you've always been denied."