"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.