Pass hovers on the fifth and only comes home on the last three words. The hook holds A, the fifth of D, through it's upon me, then drops to the tonic on I found it. And the song keeps reordering the same four chords, D Bm G A, section by section. Grounded in a pyin read of the vocal stem, the Whisper transcript, and the Racy chord chart, which matches the audio.
Pass · Hooray For Earth
D major · hook · the vocal hovers on the fifth, then finds the tonic on the words I found it
Reading the numbers over each vocal note: 1 root, 3 major third, 5 fifth, 7 major seventh, 9 ninth, 11 the fourth sung as a color tone, 13 thirteenth (the sixth), b7 / b3 the lowered seventh and third, #11 / b9 the raised fourth and lowered ninth. Every label is the interval that sung note makes against the chord sounding beneath it in the staff directly below.
The hook loops G (IV), D (I), A (V), Bm (vi).
The singer holds A, the fifth of D, through the whole line it's upon me, it's upon me.
That held A hangs on the dominant degree, up in the air and unresolved.
Over G (IV) that A is the 9, over D (I) it is the fifth, and in the outro over Bm (vi) the same A turns into the flat seventh.
Then on the words I found it the melody drops, B down through F# and E to land on D, the tonic.
The words find it exactly as the melody finds the home note, resolution and lyric on the same beat.
So the whole hook hovers on the fifth and only comes home on the last three words.
favorite momentThe drop to D on the words I found it, the melody landing home the moment the lyric does.
Vocal staff carries the engraved lyric; guitar and bass carry rendered tab staves in standard tuning (bass tab is 4-string EADG). Vocal line and pitch counts are a pyin read of the isolated stem; lyric from the Whisper transcript; chords from the Racy chord chart, which matches the audio.
D major · plateau · the same four chords, started from home
The plateau turns the same four chords, D (I), Bm (vi), G (IV), A (V).
The singer works a low rise, D up through E to F#, under pushin' my luck.
That rise walks the first three notes of the key, plain and grounded, matching the tonic start.
Starting on the tonic makes this section the calm around the hook.
Pass keeps reordering these four chords section by section, which is where the title lands.
Nothing borrows outside D major, so the color comes from the order and not the chords.
favorite momentThe same D Bm G A rebuilt from a new starting chord each section, the pass through the loop.
Vocal staff carries the engraved lyric (melody from a pyin read at 0:29 to 0:41, lyric from the Whisper transcript at 0:30). Guitar and bass carry rendered tab staves.
D major · outro · vi IV I, the held fifth dissolving over the plagal turn
The outro ends Bm (vi), G (IV), D (I).
The voice keeps circling it's upon me over the turn, still holding the A.
Starting on the vi keeps it wistful, then the plagal G to D settles it home.
There is no dominant in the outro, so the ending arrives soft.
Over the final D the held A is the fifth again, inside the chord, at rest at last.
D has the last word, the home the hook kept reaching for.
favorite momentThe plagal G to D at the very end, the held A finally sitting inside the home chord.
Vocal staff carries the engraved lyric (the hook phrase keeps looping through the outro per the Whisper transcript at 4:40 to 5:10). Guitar and bass carry rendered tab staves.