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Ironically, despite being a lifelong user of the truck driver's gear change, here Barry Manilow seemingly uses the technique to express great anguish: "This pain inside of me goes on and on – even now." Hey, there's no emotion the gear change can't express! To be fair, though, this particular upwardly mobile key change isn't as flabbergasting as, say, "Weekend In New England" or "Looks Like We Made It". But there is an unusual clumsiness in the double-tracking of the vocals as he sings the words "even now" in the new key. And just in case you thought that for once he might not use his trademark slow drum "effect", he reassures everyone by bringing it in after the gear change, at that tail-part of the song when the big shift has happened and there's little left to do except "emote".

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