This song was hard to sight read and I don't know why exactly. The first third was not too bad and I could hear the melody while playing it through for the first time. However, I think the once I got out of the scope of the refrain, the melody became too dissolute for me to hold on to it. That may be why the sight reading got progressively worse. Another reason was distraction at the time of playing. I acknowledged that and duly returned to the portion I had botched on that account. It was much better the second time around, but still not great. 
The opening (pictured above) is simple enough: the melody and harmony are both single voiced, and I guess that remains true to a large degree throughout the piece—which makes it all the more mysterious that I found its sight reading so much more difficult than the songs immediately preceding. These octave-length quavers to the right are perhaps the most technically difficult aspect of the piece (though easy to read because you only read one note and all the rest are the same.) Still, they are not at all difficult to play, and that makes the song pretty easy, at least on some level.
The passage I found most interesting was this one in which arpeggios in each hand dovetail and terminate in Edim with a major 7th added. Those "arpeggios" may just be broken chords, actually, but I like the figure they make and the idea of harmonising in contrasting directions.
Alan Chan's rendition
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