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."
You gotta dig your body and your head
down in the snow
you gotta tie your scarf around my pole
to let them know
and I gotta take your arms around my waist
and you'll take mine
we gotta move our fingers and our toes
and we'll be fine
you're just a poor little city boy you don't know
what you're missing
I say welcome to the mountains
and you're just a skinny little city girl
you don't even know who you're kissing
I say welcome to the mountains
hang on hang on you better put some wool on
we'll see the pinetreetops from high above
move on walk up to the mountains
and if we're lucky we'll come back alive
I gotta take your arms around my waist
and you'll take mine
we gotta move our fingers
and our toes and we'll be fine
you're just a poor little city boy you don't know
what you're missing
I say welcome to the mountains
and you're just a skinny little city girl
you don't even know who you're kissing
I say welcome to the mountains
and if you wanna get high
close to the sky
welcome to the mountains
down in the snow
you gotta tie your scarf around my pole
to let them know
and I gotta take your arms around my waist
and you'll take mine
we gotta move our fingers and our toes
and we'll be fine
you're just a poor little city boy you don't know
what you're missing
I say welcome to the mountains
and you're just a skinny little city girl
you don't even know who you're kissing
I say welcome to the mountains
hang on hang on you better put some wool on
we'll see the pinetreetops from high above
move on walk up to the mountains
and if we're lucky we'll come back alive
I gotta take your arms around my waist
and you'll take mine
we gotta move our fingers
and our toes and we'll be fine
you're just a poor little city boy you don't know
what you're missing
I say welcome to the mountains
and you're just a skinny little city girl
you don't even know who you're kissing
I say welcome to the mountains
and if you wanna get high
close to the sky
welcome to the mountains
Lyrics submitted by PubliusEnigma
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