"Since I Don't Have You"

I plan on posting notes from the first seven EPs once the new year starts, and because I don't want to interrupt those with a recording of what I know of "Since I Don't Have You," I did that to-day.  I have two guitar parts (although my tone doesn't match very well, and I don't think I have the right rhythm for the chords during the bridge) and the bass part.

Here are the parts written out (with the disclaimer that I may have something wrong).

Lead guitar:

At beginning:

E|-----5-6-8-8-6-5---|

B|-8-8-------------6-|

In verses:

G|---------|:-------2-3-:|

D|---------|:-----3-----:|

A|-3-3-3-3-|:-3-5-------:|

The string of C notes (just by itself) also occurs before the bridge, but it's omitted when this phrase is played at the end of the song.

Chords

Introduction

G minor | C major | F major

Verses

|: F major | Bb minor :|

G minor | C major [F major in transition to bridge]

Bridge

|: G minor | F major :|

G minor | C major

Bass:

The bass plays mostly roots and fifths, so the notation may help elucidate the chord progression.

"Since I Don't Have You"

It's a bit difficult to tell because it occurs during the fade out, but I think the last line of "Since I Don't Have You" is "Because you know that since I don't have you, I'm so blue."  The "so" here is sung with a melisma (G F), musically giving a sense of degree.

"Since I Don't Have You"

"Since I Don't Have You" exhibits the rhetorical effect of anaphora - the repeated "I don't have."  This gives a sense of the singer/speaker's utter lack.  In the verses, the backing vocals double only "I don't have," so the lack of the various things that the lead vocal mentions ("plans and schemes... hopes and dreams...") is also represented by their absence.

The three syllables of "anything" in the repeated line "I don't have anything" are all sung to different pitches (G F Db), musically giving a sense of breadth.

While it's probably intended to be causal (in the same way that the title phrase is), the line "Since you walked out on me, oh, in walked old misery" in the bridge could also be understood as temporal.

"Share" in the line "And I don't have love to share" is sung with a melisma (F Db); since the word is sung to two different pitches, there's a musical sense of that "shar[ing]."