"On Another Ocean (January / June)"

In the line "Wherever you run" in "On Another Ocean (January / June)," the three syllables of "wherever" are sung to different pitches (Bb Db C), giving something of a sense of the word's meaning.  "Run" is sung with a melisma (Db Eb Db), musically giving a sense of movement.

"Grown Ocean"

It doesn't affect the meaning very much, but the lines "Children grown on the edge of the ocean / Kept like jewelry kept with devotion" in "Grown Ocean" could be understood in two different ways.  As printed on the record sleeve, "kept with devotion" modifies "jewelry" because there's no comma between those phrases.  If it were written as "Kept like jewelry, kept with devotion," both "kept like jewelry" and "kept with devotion" would modify "children" from the previous line.

"The Shrine/An Argument"

I have a vinyl copy of Helplessness Blues, and the lyrics for "The Shrine/An Argument" are printed in such a way that separation and absence are emphasized.  What I would render as single lines, the record has as:

Underneath were all these pennies

Fallen from the hands of

Children they were there and

Then were gone.

and

But that day, you know, I left

My money and I thought of you only

All that copper glowin' fine.

Such renderings draw attention to the separation of the pennies from the children, the children's absence, and the separation of the narrator and his money.

"Day" in the line "Ev'ry day a-passin' complete" is sung with a melisma (Eb F Eb), giving something of a sense of that "ev'ry."

There's consonance in the line "In the ocean washin' off my name from your throat," and this particular sound in this context suggests scouring or scraping clean.

"Someone You'd Admire"

In "Someone You'd Admire," a second voice comes in for "I walk with others...," so there's a musical representation of that companionship.

The phrase "gnash their teeth" seems to be a Biblical reference.  It's actually in a few places in Matthew where Jesus explains some parables, but Matthew 13:41-42 is probably the most easily quotable:  "The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace.  In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The strumming pattern emphasizes "claw" and "gnash" in the line "Claw at my skin and gnash their teeth and shout."  Both of these words occur on the first beat of the bar and coincide with the most forceful strum.