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1->''On the other side of the moon\
2Ever so far, beyond the last little star,\
3There's a land, I know,\
4Where the good songs go,\
5Where it's always afternoon,\
6And snug in a haven of peace and rest\
7Lie the dear old songs that we love the best.''
8-->--"The Land Where The Good Songs Go" (by Jerome Kern and Creator/PGWodehouse)
9
10A 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".
11
12Subtrope of LocationSong. Often an IWantSong. If the "somewhere" in question is just ''anywhere that isn't home'', it's a WanderlustSong. Compare SettingOffSong, LeavingTheNestSong.
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14!!Examples:
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16[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
17* "In A World Of My Own" from ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''.
18* "Somewhere Out There" and "There Are No Cats In America", both from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.
19** The sequel, ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', has "Way Out West".
20* "Beyond These Walls" from ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy''.
21* "City Of Light" from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''.
22* "Go the Distance" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}''.
23* "Out There" from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.
24* "That's The Life For Me" ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''.
25* "Upendi" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride''.
26* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' features both a straight example -- Ariel's "Part of Your World" -- and an inversion -- Sebastian's "Under the Sea", in which he tries to persuade Ariel to stay.
27* "The Second Star to the Right" from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
28* "Just Around the Riverbend" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''.
29* "Up There" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', in which {{Satan}} sings that he wants to be somewhere sweeter.
30* "When Will My Life Begin?" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''.
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33[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
34* TropeCodifier: "(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
35* "Somewhere" from ''Film/WestSideStory1961''.
36* "White Christmas" from ''Film/HolidayInn''.
37* "Beyond the Blue Horizon" from ''Film/{{Monte Carlo|1930}}.''
38* "Santa Fe" from ''Film/{{Newsies}}''.
39* "Something Better" from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''.
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42[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
43* The UK theme song to the 1965 Yugoslavian/German series ''The White Horses'' mentions a gentle wonderland "stars away" where the clouds are made of candy floss.
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46[[folder:Music]]
47* "Beyond the Sea", most famously performed by Music/BobbyDarin and later by Music/MichaelBuble
48* The old folk song "(Big) Rock Candy Mountain"
49* "Virginia" by Music/JeremyMessersmith
50* "Youkali" by Music/KurtWeill
51%%* The song Sam sings in Cirith Ungol, beginning with the lines "In Western Lands beneath the Sun/The flowers may rise in Spring..."
52* In ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'', Draco starts to sing a song about Pigfarts, [[MusicalisInterruptus but is cut off by Voldemort]].
53* "Fantasia" by Music/{{Stratovarius}}.
54* "Octopus's Garden" from ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' and "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' by Music/TheBeatles.
55* "Let's Get Lost" by Amanda Marshall. Specifically, she's depressed by the cold dark winter and wants to be somewhere warm near the ocean.
56* "The Mountains and Marian" by Gordon Lightfoot.
57* "Castles in the Air" by Music/DonMcLean.
58* "Song Of The Land" by Susan Aglukark. She hopes to someday live in a place with beautiful scenery where everyone lives in harmony.
59* ''Many'' Negro spirituals are this. Songs with lyrics about escaping from captivity (like "Jacob's Ladder") and reaching heaven are really about the desire to escape from slavery and live in freedom somewhere.
60* Music/TomWaits covered the ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' "Somewhere" on his album ''Music/BlueValentine''.
61** Music/BarbraStreisand covered the song as well - her version is heard at the very beginning of ''Film/TheEarthDaySpecial''.
62** In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' WholePlotReference episode "Wash/Dry Story", "Somewhere" is parodied as "Someplace".
63* Also by Music/TomWaits is "Chicago" (from the album ''Music/BadAsMe''), a more guarded version of this trope, as the narrator isn't entirely confident that Chicago will be any better than the unspecified place where he and his family currently are.
64** "Goin' Out West" (off of ''Music/BoneMachine'') is both this and an IAmSong, with the extremely macho narrator bragging about just how much they're going to love him when he gets to Hollywood.
65** "Whistle Down The Wind" (also on ''Bone Machine'') is this trope from the perspective of someone who is too terrified to make that actual leap out of his comfortable life, but also can't bear to just let life pass him by.
66* "Free to Be... You and Me" by The New Seekers, from the children's album and TV special of the same name.
67* "Land of Make Believe" by Chuck Mangione (vocal by Esther Satterfield).
68* "Chilling at the Motel 6" from AudioPlay/ASlendermanMusical. In this, Timothy and Zoe both sing about the safe, ordinary life they had once lived, which now seems like a far away, golden dream, ephemeral and unattainable.
69* "In the Hills of Tennessee" by Music/JimmieRodgers which features the singer claiming he will find his paradise lost and seventh heaven at a cabin within the hills of Tennessee.
70* "Downtown" by Petula Clark was inspired by songwriter Tony Hatch's first ever visit to UsefulNotes/NewYork in 1964, though there are no explicit references to the city itself.
71* "Rainbow Valley" by Love Affair.
72* "New York, New York" by Kander and Ebb, famously sung by Creator/LizaMinnelli.
73* "When We Get There" by Paul Anka.
74* Patience and Prudence's "The Money Tree" is about the town of Greenback, where nobody has to work and everybody's driving next year's Cadillacs.
75* "Cowtown" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, which is probably an homage to the above "Octopus's Garden".
76* Pointedly defied in Music/{{Queen}}'s "Who Wants To Live Forever?"
77-->There's no time for us\
78There's no place for us
79* "God Out West" by Music/LinkWray
80* 'Twilight Cafe' by Susan Fassbender
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83[[folder:Theatre]]
84* "Bali Ha'i" from ''Theatre/SouthPacific''.
85* "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" from ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow''.
86* "Somewhere" from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
87* "Castle On A Cloud", " In My Life " and "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.
88* "Normandy" from ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress''.
89* "Santa Fe" from ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''
90** And "Santa Fe" from ''Theatre/{{Newsies}}'', which is also this trope. The two songs are (somehow) otherwise unrelated.
91* "New Holy Land" from ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' is a subversion -- after the confrontation between the French and Spanish students, where the French students attacked Miguel because he's Jewish, Miguel sings about the explorers currently (1491) traveling the world to find a place with a freedom they can't have in Europe, but he tells Angelo that a better world isn't something you find, it's something you have to create.
92* "Solla Sollew" from ''Theatre/{{Seussical}} TheMusical''.
93* "Somewhere That's Green" from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''
94* "Never Never Land" from ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1954}}''.
95* "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' ([[BigApplesauce about New York]]).
96* "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" from ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' is a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]], where Nabulungi imagines a "paradise on earth" that bears no relation to [[UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} the real place she's singing about]]. We, the audience, [[DramaticIrony know better]].
97* "There's a World" from ''Theatre/NextToNormal''. In context, it's PlayedForDrama, because the character singing is referring to [[spoiler:the ''afterlife'']].
98* "Let's Fly Away" from the Music/ColePorter musical ''The New Yorkers''.
99* "My Soul is Madly Tired" from the Russian rock opera ''Music/JunoAndAvos''.
100* "Her Voice" and "Beyond My Wildest Dreams" from the stage adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''.
101* The title song and "The Grass is Greener" from Michael & Jill Gallina's ''Freedom Bound'' (not to be confused with the Mad River Theatre Works musical of the same name).
102* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXUWgEuuts "A Million Miles Away"]] from the stage version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
103* "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''.
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