Showing posts with label How Can You Walk Away. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Can You Walk Away. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

"How Can You Walk Away"

I listened to Keats yester-day and noticed a few things in "How Can You Walk Away," specifically in the chorus:
How can you walk away
How can you leave
How can you turn away
When our love was incomplete
Both "away"s (Bb G F) and "leave" (F D) are sung with melismas, which all give a musical sense of movement.  There's also a slant rhyme between "leave" and "incomplete," so the nature of being "incomplete" is demonstrated poetically.