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I just wrote
a post about some songs by the Shirelles (mostly about implications of melismas), and since the Beatles covered some of their songs, I felt it'd be worth noting here that they do the same thing as the Shirelles in "Baby It's You."
The "apart" in the line "It's not the way you kiss that tears me apart" is broken up into syllables, so the way that it's sung reflects what the word means.