"Somewhere" Song

"''On the other side of the moon

Ever so far, beyond the last little star,

There's a land, I know,

Where the good songs go,

Where it's always afternoon,

And snug in a haven of peace and rest

Lie the dear old songs that we love the best.''"

- "The Land Where The Good Songs Go" (by Jerome Kern and PG Wodehouse)

A song about an idealized, far-off place, real, imaginary or merely notional, often at a specific time. Often, the title will include the words "Somewhere" or "Out/Up/Over There".

Compare "I Want" Song. If the "somewhere" in question is just anywhere that isn't home, it's a Wanderlust Song.

Animated Film

 * "Out There" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
 * "Part Of Your World" from The Little Mermaid.
 * "Up There" from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, in which Satan sings that he wants to be somewhere sweeter.
 * "In A World Of My Own" from Alice in Wonderland.
 * "The Second Star to the Right" from Peter Pan.
 * "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail.
 * "Upendi" from The Lion King 2.
 * "Just Around the Riverbend" from Pocahontas.
 * "When Will My Life Begin?" from Tangled.
 * "Go the Distance" from Hercules.

Live Action Film

 * "(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
 * "White Christmas" from Holiday Inn.
 * "Beyond the Blue Horizon" from Monte Carlo.
 * "Santa Fe" from Newsies.

Theatre

 * "Bali Hai" from South Pacific
 * "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" from Finian's Rainbow.
 * "Somewhere" from West Side Story.
 * "Castle On A Cloud" from Les Misérables.
 * "Normandy" from Once Upon a Mattress.
 * "Santa Fe" from Rent
 * "Solla Sollew" from Seussical The Musical.
 * "Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of Horrors
 * "Never Never Land" from Peter Pan.
 * "Maybe" from Annie.
 * "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from Hello Dolly (about New York).
 * "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" from "The Book of Mormon".
 * "There's a World" from "Next to Normal".

Other Music

 * "Beyond the Sea"
 * The old folk song "Rock Candy Mountain"
 * "Virginia" by Jeremy Messersmith
 * "Youkali" by Kurt Weill
 * The song Sam sings in Cirith Ungol, beginning with the lines "In Western Lands beneath the Sun/The flowers may rise in Spring..."
 * In A Very Potter Musical, Draco starts to sing a song about Pigfarts, but is cut off by Voldemort.
 * "Fantasia" by Stratovarius.