Audio Example 4.13:

"Simple Twist of Fate," from verse 1

Chapter 4
Audio Example 4.13
Page 109

"Simple Twist of Fate," from verse 1

New York, NY (A&R Studios)September 19, 1974

Another example of the chant-escape technique, with leaps up at the end of the fist three lines, corresponding with the rhyme: "park," "dark," "spark." As soon as that line-ending vowel changes—with "bones" in line four—the escape tone disappears, replaced by a drop to a lower register.