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."
Glory saved the tears
She should have cried along Jamaicaway
Letting all the beauty go to waste
Fear us torn inside of you
Even when it’s always cold
Step along the cracks until they break
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
All the kings of gossamer
Kicked the surface off the shine
Till this loveliness shall pay and pay
Tell us when it gets too much
Tell us when we’ve had enough
I can wait forever and a day
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
She should have cried along Jamaicaway
Letting all the beauty go to waste
Fear us torn inside of you
Even when it’s always cold
Step along the cracks until they break
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
All the kings of gossamer
Kicked the surface off the shine
Till this loveliness shall pay and pay
Tell us when it gets too much
Tell us when we’ve had enough
I can wait forever and a day
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Poison in the desert can drip real slow
Anything that moves real fast lets go
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
Here inside his head
Where desire takes a bow
You can save your precious skin
And live to show it off somehow
Cause anything but dead
Is all you ever really wanted now
Lyrics submitted by boneyardsorceress
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