"All the Things"

"See the sun, how bright it is" and "See the earth, how sweet it smells" in "All the Things" seem to borrow their structure from the Bible, specifically "'Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow'" in Matthew 6:28 (it's condensed a bit in the parallel passage in Luke 12:27:  "'Consider the lilies, how they grow'").

In the chorus ("All the things I want today / All the things I wasted on the way"), a second vocal part comes in to harmonize with the lead vocal, and because there are two voices, there's a slight sense of the entirety of these "all"s.

A few days ago, I figured out the chords and discovered some connections between the progression and the lyrics.  The first line of each verse is:

D major | C major | G major | D major

And the second line is:

D major | C major | G major

Compared to the previous line, there's a D major missing at the end of this line, and to some degree, this lack matches "no one's there" in the first verse ("See the sun, it shines right through my door, but no one's there") and "forgotten, left behind" in the third ("See this dried up broken straw, forgotten, left behind").

"Truck Stop Girl"

When I started this project, I'd listened to (Untitled) only twice.  I've become more familiar with it over the last few years, and I'm going to start writing about it, although most of my initial notes will be just small points.

In "Truck Stop Girl," "young" in the line "But he was so young" (which occurs later as "And he was so young") is sung with a melisma (Eb Bb), giving a sense of degree (for "so").