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."
Kelly won't kiss my friend Cassandra
Jessica won't play ball
Mandy won't share her friend Miranda
Doesn't anybody live at all?
Amanda won't leave me empty handed,
Got her number from a bathroom stall
Brandy just brought way too much baggage
And that shit just gets old
But I got a girl who can put on a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
There's nothing hotter than a..
Stacy's gonna save her self for marriage
But that's just not my style
She's got a pair that's nice to stare at
But I want girls gone wild
But I know a place where there's always a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg her
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
Let's throw a party just for two
You know these normal girls won't do
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg her
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
Jessica won't play ball
Mandy won't share her friend Miranda
Doesn't anybody live at all?
Amanda won't leave me empty handed,
Got her number from a bathroom stall
Brandy just brought way too much baggage
And that shit just gets old
But I got a girl who can put on a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
There's nothing hotter than a..
Stacy's gonna save her self for marriage
But that's just not my style
She's got a pair that's nice to stare at
But I want girls gone wild
But I know a place where there's always a show
The dollar decides how far you can go with her
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg her
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
Your body's lighting up the room
I want a naughty girl like you
Let's throw a party just for two
You know these normal girls won't do
She wraps those hands around that pole
She licks those lips and off we go
She takes it off nice and slow
'Cause that's porn star dancin'
She don't play nice, she makes me beg her
She drops that dress around her legs
And I'm sittin' right by the stage
With this porn star dancin'
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