Showing posts with label Watching and Waiting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watching and Waiting. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

"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."

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

"Watching and Waiting"

When I listened to To Our Children's Children's Children yester-day, I noticed a small thing in "Watching and Waiting."  "Share" in the lines "They're here for only you / To share" is sung with a melisma, although it's sung to two notes of the same pitch (G).  Still, the articulation gives something of a sense of the word's meaning, since the word is "share[d]" by the two notes.