Album: Hopes and Fears (2004)

Charted: 3 50

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• Three, four
  
  I walked across
  An empty land
  I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
  
  I felt the earth
  Beneath my feet
  Sat by the river, and it made me complete
  
  Oh, simple thing
  Where have you gone?
  I'm getting old, and I need something to rely on
  
  So tell me when
  You're gonna let me in
  I'm getting tired, and I need somewhere to begin
  
  I came across
  A fallen tree
  I felt the branches of it looking at me
  
  Is this the place
  We used to love?
  Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?
  
  Oh, simple thing
  Where have you gone?
  I'm getting old, and I need something to rely on
  
  So tell me when
  You're gonna let me in
  I'm getting tired, and I need somewhere to begin
  
  And if you have a minute, why don't we go
  Talk about it somewhere only we know?
  This could be the end of everything
  
  So why don't we go
  Somewhere only we know?
  Somewhere only we know
  
  Oh, simple thing
  Where have you gone?
  I'm getting old, and I need something to rely on
  
  So tell me when
  You're gonna let me in
  I'm getting tired, and I need somewhere to begin
  
  And if you have a minute, why don't we go
  Talk about it somewhere only we know?
  This could be the end of everything
  
  So why don't we go?
  So why don't we go?
  
  Ah
  Oh
  
  This could be the end of everything
  So why don't we go
  
  Somewhere only we know?
  Somewhere only we know
  Somewhere only we know Writer/s: Richard David Hughes, Timothy James Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Sally from Leeds United KingdomI love this song but at the same time it often brings tears to my eyes. To me, "simple thing" is about time and the present moment. Each one of us has a limited amount of time on earth but yet its a resource that is often taken for granted and wasted. This song brings to mind somebody who is aware they are getting old and wondering where the time has gone. They are aware that so much precious time has passed by slipping away un oticed and maybe wastes. Perhaps there is something that they feel that they should have done along time ago but maybe the time was never right. Now they seem to be sadly aware that their time could run out and the opportunity lost. The ability to live in the moment is aasier said than done for many of us. As we go threw life its natural to allow ourselves to carry burdens of time gone by just as its natural to worry about the uncertainties of tomorrow. The ability to just be and the concept of this moment unencumbered by the past or worries about tomorrow is something that goes hand in hand with the blissful naivety of a happy childhood. Perhaps as we approach the end of our lives we can capture the essence of both the beauty of simplicity once more. Although this perspective is somewhat tinged with sadness as we realise the ways in which we've made our lives more complicated than needs be. There is still the chance to enjoy & capture once more the true value of simplicity
• Celeste Lilly from CaliforniaThis song hit me square in the face. To me it is about losing someone to death. It is about that person that is is close to you as anyone and knowing that one of you is going to be leaving this earth. It's a saying goodbye but remembering the good things along the way. It is that very special place or time that only the two of you celebrated.
• Alun Richards from Swansea,south WalesJust love somewhere only we know, but would like to know exactly what other instruments, other than the piano,,are used in the track.I have just learned the chords and would enjoy putting all the instruments down on my DAW.
• Karl from Ingatestone, United KingdomI understand why Paris Hilton did the Keane episode of SNL. Anyway, enough about her, Hopes And Fears is up there with The Unauthorized Biography Of Reindhold Messner and Siamese Dream.
• Steven from Chicago, IlI heard this song when they performed on SNL with Paris Hilton hosting. I f--kING LOVE THIS SONG.
• Tessa from Washingtonville, PaListening...... no singing yet. Ok here we go.....
  I'm liking it... very nice.
• Tiffany from Little Rock, ArThis is my first Keane song and I love it. It makes me cry if I listen to it in the right mood, because it's so sweet and personal.
• Dylan from Denver, CoI have heard Tim say that it's not about anyone in particular. 'Somewhere Only We Know' can mean any place that is special to you, anywhere you can escape to, but it doesn't have to be a physical place: it can something like a memory, or just the smell of the sea. It's much more ambiguous in that sense.

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