About four months ago, I wrote about Carole King's "It's Too Late." Instead of transcribing the lyrics myself, I referenced those in the liner notes of Tapestry, and - in doing so - I found an interesting line break in "Home Again."
There's a slight pause after "I really need someone to talk to, and nobody else" before it's completed with "Knows how to comfort me tonight." Before it's completed, that "nobody else" seems to be the direct object of "need" instead of the subject of an-other clause. So it could be rendered as "I really need someone to talk to and nobody else." As long as that pause continues, there's a different meaning to that line. With "nobody else" as a direct object of "need," "someone to talk to" acquires an exclusivity (something like "I need nobody else but someone to talk to").
Of course, the completion of the line provides that same specificity ("Nobody else / Knows how to comfort me tonight"), but it's artfully done via that pause and the ambiguity of what function "nobody else" plays.
