The Guess Who's "A Wednesday in Your Garden"

This morning I listened to the Guess Who's Wheatfield Soul, and I noticed a couple things about "A Wednesday in Your Garden."  First, there are some melismas that mirror the lyrics.  The "down" in the first line of the chorus ("It's a long way comin' down") is sung to the phrase F# E D.  By spreading "down" out across those three syllables, there's both a musical representation of the "downness" and an emphasis on the length of the "long way."  Furthermore, because F# E D doesn't skip over any notes in that section of the A major scale (I'm pretty sure the song's in A major), there's a sense of climbing down each rung of the ladder that's mentioned in the next line ("The ladders in your eye").  There's scale in the sense of musical intervals, and there's scale in the sense of climbing (albeit downward).

The "fall" in the second "You watch me fall" at the end of the second verse is sung to the phrase F# E, so there's a bit of a representation of that fall.

In the third verse, "garden" is rhymed with "harden" (the full lines are "I tried to fly in your garden" and "I watched the sky above me harden").  The first line of each verse ends with "garden," and the fourth line rhymes with it.  In the first verse, "garden" is rhymed with "pardon," and in the second, it's rhymed with "cards in" (a mosaic rhyme).  There's the least amount of orthographic change between "garden" and "harden" though, which sort of tacitly indicates that hardening.  There's less variation in how the words resemble each other visually.

The Guess Who's "Hang on to Your Life"

Earlier, I listened to The Best of the Guess Who and the spoken part at the end of "Hang on to Your Life" sounded sort of familiar to me:

They gaped upon me with their mouths
As a ravening and a roaring lion
I am poured out like water
And all my bones are out of joint
My heart is like wax
It is melted in the midst of my bowels
My strength is dried up like a potsherd
And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death

I had to do some research, but I eventually found the source.  Translations may differ, but it's Psalm 22:13-15.