"The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)"

I learned some of the flute phrase at the beginning of "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)" to-day, and I noticed that it has some similarity with a section of the bass part in "Nothing Left to Lose."  Here's the flute phrase (I think I have all but the last two measures):

(I'm not sure of the extent, but at least some of this is doubled on harpsichord.)

The majority of this phrase is just a diatonic descent that skips between octaves.  This same sort of feature is in a section of the bass part in "Nothing Left to Lose":

(Of course, there's the disclaimer for both of these that I might have the part wrong.)

The rhythms are quite different, but they're both diatonic descents that skip between two octaves.  To some degree, using this same technique in two songs gives The Turn of a Friendly Card album a bit of cohesion.  I feel it worth mentioning that "May Be a Price to Pay" and "The Gold Bug" are also musically related as are - of course - "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)" and "The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)."

[For what it's worth, I've previously written about this section of the bass part in "Nothing Left to Lose" and its resemblance to one of Bach's orchestral suites.]