"Since the Last Goodbye"

I listened to Ammonia Avenue (with bonus tracks) yester-day and discovered something about "Since the Last Goodbye."  In the version with Eric Woolfson's guide vocal, "fly" in the line "The hours, the minutes seem to fly" is sung with a melisma (D# C# A#), musically giving a sense of the passage of time.  In the final version, however, this feature isn't present.

"Since the Last Goodbye"

Last night I learned the bass part for one section of "Pipeline," so now I know at least a little bit of a part for every song on Ammonia Avenue (although I haven't recorded all of them because many are fragmentary).  I listened to Ammonia Avenue to-day and noticed a small thing about "Since the Last Goodbye."  The "falling" in the line "Remember all the leaves were falling" is sung to the notes C# B B, so there's a descent in the music (albeit a small one) to mirror the descent mentioned in the lyric.