- Somewhere Only We Know (official Music Video): Keane
The video features the band performing in a forest glade, which is inhabited by small, alien-like spirits.
At the time the song was written, Keane was struggling to gain musical success in London and felt like "fish out of water". Rice-Oxley has described the song as a message to the band members to keep going and a reminder that, despite their failures, they still had each other and their shared history. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (Official Music Video)
Watch Tim Rice-Oxley discuss the real-life locations in Battle that inspired the song's most famous lyrics: The video features the band performing in a
They represent the "simple things" mentioned in the lyrics—innocence and pure moments that are often lost as one grows older. Watch Tim Rice-Oxley discuss the real-life locations in
The "somewhere" referenced in the song is a real location in the band's hometown of .
The line "I came across a fallen tree" refers to a specific fallen pine in those woods where the three band members were famously photographed together around the age of 11.
These creatures are known as "Roxleys" (a play on Tim Rice-Oxley's name) or "Simple Things".
