THE SMART TRICK OF YESTERDAY THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

The string arrangement reinforces the tune's air of disappointment in the groaning cello line that connects the two halves of the bridge, notably the "blue" seventh in the 2nd bridge move (the Eplayed after the vocal line "I do not know / she would not say") and while in the descending run from the viola that segues the bridge again in the verses,