Friday, November 3, 2023

"She Needs Company"

I listened to the Machines EP yester-day and noticed that, aside from the last two iterations, the choruses of "She Needs Company" have a chiastic structure:
She needs comp'ny; he needs a helping hand
He needs money; she needs a man
This structure mirrors the reciprocity of the relationship.

The objects that the two characters need sort of rhyme with each other ("comp'ny" with "money" and "hand" with "man"), and to some degree, this also illustrates that parity.