@jeffrey: "the pa in patiently should still be higher note · my should start on bar 2:3 too". The shift comes off "pa": it sings F4, and the leap up from very's A#3 is the point of that phrase rather than something to smooth away. The descent across the word is hers again — pa F4 · tient D#4 · ly C#4. The `shift` mechanism stays in the chart for whenever a unit does need moving. And the rest before "my" comes out, which puts it back on bar 2 beat 3 and carries the whole line back a beat with it — so "waiting" is on bar 8 beat 1 again and "stone" on bar 6 beat 2, the placements that had been displaced by the shift.