I never got around to writing about it, but years ago (10 April 2015, according to my records), I noticed that the end of "domino" in "columnated ruins domino" in "Surf's Up" descends, musically illustrating that falling. After I listened to The SMiLE Sessions box set recently, I started thinking about this again and realized that there's more to it than that. "Domino" is sung to the notes A F E D, and I think "Surf's Up" is in D minor, so these last three notes are a diatonic descent (they fall downward in the scale without skipping any notes). One note falls into the next in the same way that one domino falls into an-other, so it's not just the descent that's musically significant here; it's also the intervals.
I also noticed that there's painting imagery in the line "Canvas the town and brush the backdrop." This might connect with the short quotation of "The Old Master Painter."
