Harry Styles "Sign Of The Time" has the same project as "Somewhere" from West Side Story: the lovers' escape is made identical to a collective rebirth/renewal/regeneration, a leap into the possible.
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And both songs argue, again, that the "somewhere" is fundamentally equivalent to the young lovers' love: "we got to get away" (our escape) is simultaneously the means whereby we collectively as a species "get away" from our cycles of violence. "All you need is love."
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The lovers' unity is a foreshadowing of the unity and love all people would have to feel for each other in order to bring this world of peace into being.
