"What Goes Up"

Yester-day, I came across the maxim "what goes up must come down" in a book I'm reading.  Of course, this reminded me of "What Goes Up," and I realized that the caesura in title line (the small break between "what goes up" and "must come down") creates a bit of suspense as the listener waits for the line to be completed.

"I Don't Wanna Go Home"

Last night, I was thinking about "I Don't Wanna Go Home," specifically a line at the end of the first verse:  "You should have stayed on the outside (Lookin' in)."  As the parentheses indicate, the "lookin' in" is sung by a different voice.  Because there are two different vocal parts here, there's a sense of separation (which the narrator is retrospectively wishing for).

"Breakdown"

Last week, I figured out the chords for "Breakdown."  I think they're something like:

|: A major | G major | F major | A major :|

|: D minor | C major | A major :|

|: G major | A major :|

And during the guitar solo and the coda:

|: A major | G major | A major :|

Nominally, this is in A major, but aside from A major itself, all of these chords have at least one accidental.  To some degree, these accidentals indicate the sentiments in the song:  "I breakdown in the middle and lose my thread... Nothing I try to do can work the same way."

"The Gold Bug"

I listened to The Turn of a Friendly Card yester-day (on vinyl), and then I learned a section of the saxophone part in "The Gold Bug" (roughly from ~1:34 to ~2:06).  I'd previously figured out some of the bass part, so I felt it merited a recording:

I used the Mellotron saxophone sound on my keyboard; it's the best I could do.