The first thing I noticed was the bass parts during the "(Remember) Walking in the sand..." section:
(standard disclaimer that the notation may be wrong because I did it myself)
I should note that I combined the electric bass part and the bass register of the piano part in the notation. After two eighth notes spanning a fourth (A to D) in the bass register of the piano, the electric bass echoes that fourth in quarter notes. Musically, there's a portrayal of memory. There's the initial event (the fourth on piano), and then that event is revisited but - because of the unreliable nature of memory - it's slightly different. It's still the interval of a fourth, but it's played on a different instrument and the note values are longer, almost as if that memory is being dwelt upon rather than hurriedly passed over.
In figuring out how to play the bass part (so that I could write about what was happening in that section), I discovered that during the verses, it's has a downward trend:
This repeats throughout the verse, but I don't know how to add repeat signs (the program I use is actually meant to create MIDI files, not notation, but it works well enough for that purpose).
Between that descent and the key (D minor), the sadness in the lyrics ("Seems like the other day / My baby went away," "He said that we were through / He found somebody new") is emphasized.
About a month after I realized those two things about the bass part, I realized that those two sections are in different time signatures. The verses are in 3/4, and the choruses are in 4/4. There's a musical distinction between the events that the singer/speaker is currently relating and the events that she's remembering.
