"After You Came"

I listened to Every Good Boy Deserves Favour yester-day and noticed a small feature in "After You Came."  In the lines "So you just have to laugh / When it hurts so much," "hurts" is sung with a melisma (B A), giving a sense of degree (for "so much").

"Dawn Is a Feeling"

Last night, I learned the bass part for the verses of "Dawn Is a Feeling."  To this, I could add some of the piano part, which I learned in March 2018.  I made a short recording of just one verse:

I used the "Grand Lady D" piano sound on my Nord Electro 5D, recorded in mono.

I also discovered that I'd misunderstood the meter of the song.  Before, I knew only the piano arpeggiations, so I thought the song was in 3/4, but learning the bass part made me realize that those piano arpeggiations are actually triplets and that the song is really in a slow 4/4 (although I think there's an odd measure in the verses that has only two beats), so some of my previous comments may not be valid.

"Nights in White Satin"

Yester-day, I was thinking about the poem that's spoken at the end of "Nights in White Satin," specifically these lines:

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one,

Lonely man cries for love and has none.

New mother picks up and suckles her son,

Senior citizens wish they were young.

(That's how they're formatted in the CD liner notes.)

I realized that there's a contrast here that highlights the solitude of the lonely man.  The lovers are a pair; the mother and son are a pair; and the senior citizens - while they may be separate from each other - are united in their common wish; but the lonely man is by himself.