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Harry Styles and his ode to real life

We don’t talk enough / We should open up / Before it’s all too much / Will we ever learn? / We’ve been here before / It’s just what we know Besides the mention of the “sign of the times” which I consider poignant, and deceptively so, as it’s hidden in a "mainstream pop" song, I believe it’s this part of the song that really delivers the punch that I’m not sure that we hear as a listener. (Probably because it’s hidden near the end of a 5-minute long song.) The verses to me are just meandering around comforting a loved one about these troublesome, strange days that are among us. Do you feel it? We are the same, yet we are changing. Not necessarily calls to despair, but definitely a summons to change. And it's about time, isn't it? We don't talk enough - we talk, but what do we really say? "Everybody's talking, but no one says a word," cried Lennon. There's more than the Kardashians to talk about, and we sh