I listened to Let It Be yester-day, but even before I listened to it, I had a couple small realizations about "Two of Us."
"Lifting" in the line "Lifting latches" is sung to an ascending pair of notes (although it's only a small interval: just a whole step from A to B), musically illustrating its meaning.
The line "Standing solo in the sun" exhibits alliteration, and this repetition of a single sound matches the singularity of "solo."
I forgot to record this at least twice, but last month, I learned the electric guitar part in the coda of "Two of Us" (the Let It Be version, at least).
For my Collection Audit project, I listened to Let It Be yester-day. I'd tried figuring out "Two of Us" once before without any luck, but I thought I'd try it again, and I think I have the acoustic guitar parts now (although it wasn't until I recorded this that I really realized the guitar that's panned right has a part that isn't just chords; it's only three notes though, so it was pretty easy to figure out too).
I use the original tracks as templates when I record my own versions (I just play on top of them), and the talking at the beginning made it hard to sync this perfectly, so I don't have the tempo right at the beginning. I don't have the strumming rhythm right either (it's not even consistent between the two guitar tracks I recorded), but I usually don't pay much attention to that. This isn't the whole song, but I have at least one instance of each part (the song is just verses and bridges).
After I recorded this, I realized that every "home" in the lyrics is sung on top of a G major chord. The song is in G major, so the G major chord is the musical "home" to which the song returns too, just like in the lyrics. Only one of the "home"s is sung to a G note though: the one in the line "On our way back home." The others are sung to B notes.
The bridge is in a different key (I'm not sure if it's technically Bb major or G minor, but those two keys have all of the same notes), which - to some degree - helps portray the distance of the nostalgia mentioned in the lyric ("memories / Longer than the road that stretches out ahead").
I have an-other project like this based on Electric Light Orchestra, and I've (slowly) been going through their albums. I just posted some notes about Face the Music, and I listened to a few songs from Sgt. Pepper to compare "Evil Woman" with "Fixing a Hole." I also found a phrase in "Down Home Town" that's an astonishingly-well-crafted homage to "She Loves You" (it uses the same notes!).
In any case, since I was already listening to one Sgt. Pepper song, I added "When I'm Sixty-Four" to my now-playing list just for the sake of completing a bit more of my transcription. I noticed a line in the second verse: "Sunday mornings go for a ride."
It's not too spectacular by itself, but it has connections to two other Beatle songs - "Day Tripper" and "Two of Us" from Let It Be. Back in February, I noticed that both contain the phrase "Sunday driver" (or "Sunday driving"). And now I've discovered that "When I'm Sixty-Four" has something similar.
Like I said back in February, it seems significant that the girl in "Day Tripper" goes on Sunday drives alone where the pair in "Two of Us" goes on them together. The couple in "When I'm Sixty-Four" seems to fit into that paradigm too, aligning with the pair in "Two of Us." It's unsurprising then that "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "Two of Us" - with their similar views on Sunday driving - were both written by Paul McCartney.
