"She Needs Company"

Last night, I finally notated the saxophone part in "She Needs Company" that I figured out last week, and I had an-other realization about the song.  It's in E major, which has four sharps, so in a way, there's a representation of the description "both dressed so sharp in all the latest fashions," although, obviously, the meanings of these two sharps are different.  Furthermore, most of the longest notes in the saxophone part are sharps, lending some more emphasis to these particular pitches.

Of course, there's the disclaimer that I may have something wrong, but I think the part is something like this:

The song actually contains two saxophone parts.  So far, I've figured out only one, but I may have inadvertently mixed the two.

"She Needs Company"

Last night, I figured out one of the saxophone parts in "She Needs Company," and while doing so, I noticed some significance in the melodic shape of the lead vocal in the last line of each of the first two verses:  "But she is rich, and he is poor" and "But he is young, and she is old."  The conjunctions are sung to the same pitch (E), but otherwise, the first half ascends (F# G# B) while the second half descends (A G# F#).  These different directions emphasize the opposites in the lyrics:  "rich" & "poor" and "young" & "old."

"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.