"Just Once in My Life"

A few years ago, I noted that under the line "I've given up on schemes 'cause ev'ry one fell through" in "Just Once in My Life," the synth bass plays a chromatically descending phrase (Eb D Db):

At the time, I wrote that this descent matches the "falling through," even if the music takes it a bit more literally.

When I listened to the song again recently, I realized that in a very small way, the breadth of this chromaticism also matches the entirety of "ev'ry one."