"Somewhere" Song

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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".

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 P. G. Wodehouse)

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

Examples of "Somewhere" Song include:

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.