"You Never Give Me Your Money"

This morning I was thinking about "You Never Give Me Your Money," specifically this section:

Out of college, money spent,

See no future, pay no rent,

All the money's gone, nowhere to go.

Any jobber got the sack,

Monday morning turning back,

Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go.

But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go!

Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go!

Nowhere to go!

(This is how it appears in The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook.)

Most of this exhibits asyndeton.  There are no conjunctions (aside from one "But"), just phrases and clauses crammed together.  This lack of any conjunctions mirrors the absences in the lyrics themselves:  "no future," "no rent," "the money's gone," "nowhere to go."

"You Never Give Me Your Money"

Yester-day I learned the vocal melody for the first two verses of "You Never Give Me Your Money," and in doing so I discovered something interesting.

I might be a bit off on the rests, but the melody is something like this:

The song is in A minor (at least this section is), but there's a G# accidental.  In the lyrics, this corresponds to "you" in the line "And in the middle of negotiations you break down" in the first verse and "I" in the line "And in the middle of investigation I break down" in the second verse.  The note's being an accidental sort of musically represents the "break[ing] down" of both "you" and "I."