"Add Some Music to Your Day"

The rhyme scheme for the verses in "Add Some Music to Your Day" seems to be ABCCD, with the first two lines (AB) often forming something of a slant rhyme ("home" with "phone" and "heart" with "cars") and the last line (D) being some variation of the title phrase, linking the verses together.  In contrast to this, the section

Music

When you're alone

Is like a companion

For your lonely soul

is completely devoid of rhymes, and this lack of complements mirrors the singularity of being "alone."

In the line "There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone," "stone" is sung with a melisma (B A B A G#), musically giving something of a sense of the movement of "rollin'."

"Add Some Music to Your Day"

Yester-day I learned the chords for "Add Some Music to Your Day" and noticed something interesting about them.  For the first three verses, all of the chords are major chords, but the bridge starts with a C# minor.  After almost two whole minutes of major chords, that one minor chord completely changes the mood and (to some degree) provides a musical sense of the desolation and loneliness mentioned in the bridge ("Music... Is like a companion / For your lonely soul").

I feel it also worth mentioning that when I listened to the album a couple weeks ago, I realized I had part of my transcription wrong.  I'd thought a line in the third verse was "Your preacher adds it to his songs" (although I thought this didn't make much sense).  I realized recently that the line is actually "Your preacher adds it to his psalms" (rhyming with "calm" from the previous line).  Along with making a lot more sense, this is actually true.  In four of my hymnals, there are chant tones to which the Psalms can be sung.

"Add Some Music to Your Day"

I've been listening to Sunflower pretty regularly lately, and I noticed a couple things about "Add Some Music to Your Day."  To-day I listened to the 2000 re-issue of Sunflower and Surf's Up on the same CD because to-day's Paul Atkinson's birthday (he co-produced the re-issue [and was the original guitarist for the Zombies]), and I transcribed the majority of the lyrics.

The first line is "The Sunday mornin' gospel goes good with the soul."  "Soul" can have two meanings here.  There's "soul" in the same sense it has in later lines like "Music / When you're alone / Is like a companion / For your lonely soul" and "Music is in my soul."  And there's also "soul" in the sense of the music genre.  Gospel is mentioned in the same line, and the next line continues this cataloguing of genres:  "There's blues, folk, and country, and rock like a rollin' stone."  I think "soul" in the sense of a person's intangible essence is the primary meaning, but the other sense is certainly relevant too.

The other thing I noticed is the "Ev'rywhere" in the backing vocals during the section where the lyrics are just "Add some music" over and over.  It's sung with a melisma, with the "-where" part sung to the notes E B C# B.  Its being sung to more than one syllable and to a variety of pitches is a musical representation of the "ev'rywhere."