Tuesday, January 12, 2021

"If You're Gone"

I can't decipher the whole first line of "If You're Gone," but "ev'rything" in the phrase "to me you're ev'rything" is sung with a melisma (A C B A G, I think), musically giving a sense of that entirety.  "Fall" in the line "If you're here, the night is rightly going to fall" is sung with a melisma (B A G), so while it's used more metaphorically here, there's a sense of its meaning.  "Care" in the line "If I love you, if I know how much I care" is sung with this same melisma for a sense of degree ("how much").  "Anywhere" in the line "If I find the things you want then, anywhere" is also sung with a melisma (G G F# E D), musically giving a sense of that breadth of possibility.