Sufjan Stevens' "Eugene"

This morning I listened to Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and noticed something about a recurring line in "Eugene."  It changes a bit every time it's repeated, but it's some variation of "I just wanted to be near you," "I wanna be near you," or "I just wanna be near you."  In all of them, there's the interval of a sixth between the "near" (F#) and the "you" (D#).  This interval does two things.  First, it implies distance between the singer/speaker and the "you."  Second, because of the musical distance covered in singing that sixth, it shows the effort that the singer/speaker is willing to exert in order to "be near you."

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire's Thrills

I just listened to Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire's Thrills, and - like I did back in March and in August - I found some lyrics that Andrew Bird later re-used.

The line "two sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis" (or at least I think those are the words) in "Eugene" also appears as "sure fatal doses, malcontent through osmosis" near the end of "Imitosis" on Armchair Apocrypha.

"Cock O' the Walk" contains the line "took the 4:50 Addison to see Pulaski at night," and I Want to See Pulaski at Night was the title of Bird's EP from 2013.

Additionally, "a dog with a nasal disease" from "Nuthinduan Waltz" seems to be a precedent for "a wolf with a lung disease" from "Natural Disaster" on Noble Beast.