"I Know There's an Answer"

I listened to Pet Sounds yester-day to mark the sixtieth anniversary of its release, and I noticed a small point in "I Know There's an Answer."  "Better" in the line "And tell them the way that they live could be better" is sung with a melisma (G Eb C Bb), and this articulation lends a sense of the comparative nature of the adjective (more notes for a greater degree).

Later, I noticed that "day" and "night" in the line "They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night" form something of a temporal merism.

"Salt Lake City"

I listened to Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) a few days ago, and yester-day, I had a small realization about "Salt Lake City."  The line "They've got the sun in the summer, and wintertime, the skiin' is great, yeah" has something of a chiastic structure, with the temporal elements in the middle:

They've got the sun

in the summer,

and wintertime,

the skiin' is great, yeah

That the order of the elements is inverted highlights the opposite times of these seasons.