"Tears in the Morning"

I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of Sunflower/Surf's Up because to-day's the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Sunflower (and yester-day was the forty-ninth anniversary of the release of Surf's Up), and I noticed a few things.

This is just a small point, but in "Tears in the Morning," "Day and night" in the lines "Day and night, feel my light, it's gonna stand till / My heart believes in what you chose" is a merism.

"Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale): Radio King Dom"

This is an-other small point, but I found two merisms in the "Radio King Dom" section of "Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale)."

The children looked everywhere, high and low, checking to see if they could find that transistor radio.  They couldn't find it.  They couldn't find it.  They looked upstairs and downstairs, all through the castle.

Mentioning the opposite extremes ("high and low" and "upstairs and downstairs") gives a sense of the breadth of the search.

"Leaving This Town"

A little over a month ago, I listened to Holland and noticed a small feature in "Leaving This Town."  In the line "Should I stay or go," "go" is sung with a melisma (B C B B A, I think), musically giving a sense of movement.

"Surfin'"

I was thinking about "Surfin'" this morning and realized that the line "Surfin' is the only life, the only way for me" is sung to only two pitches.  "Surfin' is the only life, the" is sung entirely to Eb notes, and "only way for me" is sung entirely to Db notes.  For each half of this line, then, the singularity of pitch musically represents the exclusivity of "only."