The Alan Parsons Project's "Limelight"

This morning I listened to the second disc of The Essential Alan Parsons Project (which I started yester-day), and I found two things to write about.  The first is pretty simple:  in the song "Limelight" (originally from Stereotomy), there are the lines "Limelight, don't let me slip right through your fingers / There's a long way to fall" (when it's repeated later, it's "don't let it slip right through your fingers").  Both times, there's a melisma for "fall," where the later notes are lower in pitch than the earlier ones, so the word itself is falling in pitch as it's sung.