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."
I don't believe you can do it.
Aaaaaaaaaa! A ha ha.
You're inexcusable.
Sleeping through the back, I (fucked a dope inspector, trouble??????) now,
Sleepwalk til I never sleep, lost in a ???? soul,
Dead come down, the spirits come to my bed,
All there is, all there was,
Reachin' for the better pills, yeah.
Super elastic, double plastic,
Decapatation takes off my head,
Why do you keep on mauling (???) me?
Distant sounds of dead men fix, we take the test to use again,
Don't you see it's all a game, schedules take control for you,
Zodiac zombie, mental mumble, you can't hear a word I say,
Go ahead and try it punk, yeah,
Super elastic, double plastic,
Decapatation takes off my head,
Super elastic, double plastic,
Regurgatation lands on my head,
Then he wanted out of the wrestling game and got into strip-teasing.
I want a Zombie in a tall glass.
Super 'lastic, never plastic, decapatation takes off my head,
Screamin' through the black, I fucked that dope inspector, trouble, ah,
Sleepwalk til I never sleep, lost in (???) soul,
Death come down, the spirits come to my bed,
All there is, all there was,
Reachin' for the better pills, yeah,
Super elastic...
AAAAAAAAAAA!!No! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Get me samples.
Aaaaaaaaaa! A ha ha.
You're inexcusable.
Sleeping through the back, I (fucked a dope inspector, trouble??????) now,
Sleepwalk til I never sleep, lost in a ???? soul,
Dead come down, the spirits come to my bed,
All there is, all there was,
Reachin' for the better pills, yeah.
Super elastic, double plastic,
Decapatation takes off my head,
Why do you keep on mauling (???) me?
Distant sounds of dead men fix, we take the test to use again,
Don't you see it's all a game, schedules take control for you,
Zodiac zombie, mental mumble, you can't hear a word I say,
Go ahead and try it punk, yeah,
Super elastic, double plastic,
Decapatation takes off my head,
Super elastic, double plastic,
Regurgatation lands on my head,
Then he wanted out of the wrestling game and got into strip-teasing.
I want a Zombie in a tall glass.
Super 'lastic, never plastic, decapatation takes off my head,
Screamin' through the black, I fucked that dope inspector, trouble, ah,
Sleepwalk til I never sleep, lost in (???) soul,
Death come down, the spirits come to my bed,
All there is, all there was,
Reachin' for the better pills, yeah,
Super elastic...
AAAAAAAAAAA!!No! AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Get me samples.
Lyrics submitted by Ice
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