"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 P. G. 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.

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.