"Separate Lives"

I listened to Vulture Culture yester-day and noticed an interesting feature in "Separate Lives."  In the lines "'Cause we don't see eye to eye / And we can't stand face to face," the phrases "eye to eye" and "face to face" are sung so that the two "eye"s and the two "face"s are sung to different pitches.  (Each phrase is sung to the notes F# G E.)  Even musically, then, there's a sense of this disparity.

"Separate Lives"

I listened to Vulture Culture yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Separate Lives."  "Go" in the line "The way we must go" is sung with a melisma (C# B A), which musically gives a sense of the movement of "go[ing]."

"Separate Lives"

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I listened to Vulture Culture yester-day, and I learned a couple parts.  First, I have what I guess is a synth part from "Separate Lives."  The closest match on my keyboard is actually calliope.  I'd thought that this is just the same phrase repeated (so it's played four times), but the third iteration has a different rhythm, and the fourth iteration (which I don't have yet) has different notes.

I also figured out that the synth part that begins the song is just A notes an octave apart.  I'm not sure how long that lasts though or if the notes change later on.