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."
Well you gotta see this
Golden thing
You golden thing
And when you get there better kiss me
Garbage piled up to the ceiling
Ashtrays shaped like asses
All this money and a golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Horseheads that I dance around in
In coked up anorexics
Got a tree and this golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Well you gotta see this
Golden thing
You golden thing
And when you get there better kiss me
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Golden thing
You golden thing
And when you get there better kiss me
Garbage piled up to the ceiling
Ashtrays shaped like asses
All this money and a golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Horseheads that I dance around in
In coked up anorexics
Got a tree and this golden thing
You golden thing
Hell, I got
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Well you gotta see this
Golden thing
You golden thing
And when you get there better kiss me
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
Ah-ah
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Golden Thing Lyrics as written by Kristin Hersh
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