In the line "As you turn your face to the sky" in "Say What You Mean (Part I)," the phrase "to the sky" is sung to an ascending group of notes (C D E). Although it's slight, this ascent does give some sense of the meaning here.
I figured out the chords for the song and discovered that this ascent is also in the chord progression for this line: D minor | G major | A major. If I'm not mistaken, the song is in D minor, so there are additional half step raises in the accidentals (B natural in G major and C# in A major, instead of the key's usual Bb and C natural, respectively).
