Per the FAQ on Keane's website, Keane's drummer Richard Hughes, stated the following:
"We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs... It's perhaps more of a theme rather than a specific message... Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time..."
With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone."
Les affaires reprennent, comme on dit
Tout reste à faire aujourd'hui
Il en aura fallu du temps
Pour que tout redémarre comme avant
Les indices décollent
Et les cours s'affolent
C'est l'moment
Faut prendre le pactole
Demain j'augemente mon capital
Pour devenir le leader mondial
Je vends de l'eau, du gaz, du téléphone
Mais qui vous parle de monoploe
Regardez mes chaînes de télé
Peut-être alors vous comprendrez
C'est comme une famille
Tout superbes
Admirez-moi mes jeunes éphèbes
Ardents, brillant, propres et nets
Un peu polis pour être honnêtes
REFRAIN :
You're gonna rock with it
You're gonna rock with it (5X)
J'adore la confusion des genres
Nous sommes très présents dans le sport
Nous invitons les réfractaires
Autour d'un match et d'une bonne bière
On n'a rien à perdre, sauf la tête
A chaque fois qu'baisse mon revenu net
On s'fait peur, c'est la vie
On est capitaine d'industrie
(REFRAIN)
Tout reste à faire aujourd'hui
Il en aura fallu du temps
Pour que tout redémarre comme avant
Les indices décollent
Et les cours s'affolent
C'est l'moment
Faut prendre le pactole
Demain j'augemente mon capital
Pour devenir le leader mondial
Je vends de l'eau, du gaz, du téléphone
Mais qui vous parle de monoploe
Regardez mes chaînes de télé
Peut-être alors vous comprendrez
C'est comme une famille
Tout superbes
Admirez-moi mes jeunes éphèbes
Ardents, brillant, propres et nets
Un peu polis pour être honnêtes
REFRAIN :
You're gonna rock with it
You're gonna rock with it (5X)
J'adore la confusion des genres
Nous sommes très présents dans le sport
Nous invitons les réfractaires
Autour d'un match et d'une bonne bière
On n'a rien à perdre, sauf la tête
A chaque fois qu'baisse mon revenu net
On s'fait peur, c'est la vie
On est capitaine d'industrie
(REFRAIN)
Lyrics submitted by Nelly
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