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Somewhere Out There explains how a lost sole is looking hopelessly for his true love - someone that will love him and that he will love. He ponders the hopes she might be spring sweetheart, but also thinks she might be alive with the warmth of summer or that she might wander in as the leaves fall or the winter snow covers the ground. He thinks of her as being somewhere out there beyond his local streets and shopping malls, over many hills. He is positive that it will be one day in the coming years, but he is not sure which. He is even thinking he may have to go looking for her.
Rhyme is moderately successful when used in each verse of the song to imitate and improve sound, like in the refrain with ‘hill,’ ‘till,’ ‘will,’ and ‘still.’ The song successfully describes the man’s loyalty to the true love his yet to discover with the simile ‘...stick, we will, like paste...’ There is assonance in the song on line two with - “And Phil’s supermarket till,’ - which represents the local shops and the community of houses the man lives in, and in particular Phil’s supermarket. This assonance adds something very modern onto a song following somewhat on the themes of the songs of Ira and George Gershwin, and successfully creates some image in one’s mind along those lines. The song uses caesura on line 8 - ‘stick, we will, like ‘paste’ - to separate to related ideas successfully. The ‘end stopped’ technique is used throughout, unlike many Gerswhin pieces.
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