"Within You Without You"

I was thinking about "Within You Without You" yester-day, specifically the melody to which the first line is sung.  It's something like:

The lyric here is "We were talking about the space between us all."  The beginning and ending of the phrase are conjunct, but there are larger intervals (mostly fourths) in the middle, as if to illustrate that "space."

"Within You Without You"

I recently acquired the 2 CD Anniversary Edition of Sgt. Pepper, which I first listened to last night.  I noticed a couple small things, and I plan to write a few posts about them over the course of the next few days.

In "Within You Without You," the "away" in the line "When they pass away" is sung with a melisma (going back and forth between Gb and F).  This provides a musical sense of movement, namely that "pass[ing] away."

"Within You Without You"

When I listened to Sgt. Pepper a couple days ago, the phrase "the people who gain the world and lose their soul" in "Within You Without You" stuck out to me.  Because the song seems to have some Eastern influences (certainly in the music), I'm not sure if this is coincidental or not, but that line is very similar to Mark 8:36:  "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?"