Something There

"Something There" is a romantic love song featured in Beauty and the Beast. It is sung offscreen by Belle (Paige O'Hara) and the Beast (Robby Benson), accompanied by Lumière (Jerry Orbach), Cogsworth (David Ogden Stiers), and Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury).

The song was composed by Alan Menken, and lyrics were provided by the late Howard Ashman. Human Again was planning to be the song here, but due to complications, it was put away and would not be used until the 1994 musical and 2002 IMAX release. This was also the last song written for the movie and one of Howard Ashman's final songs before his death.

Plot
The song is performed soon after the Beast saves Belle from the wolf attack, and their initially shady relationship begins to blossom into a friendship. Small hints of romance are beginning to be seen as well.

The lyrical content of the song strongly emphasizes upon the fact that Belle and the Beast are beginning to fall in love. The main characters are beginning to think maybe something was absent within the first few hours Belle and the Beast met, causing them to clash. But now that the "something" is here, the love is flowing in a more stable pattern.

Lyrics
Belle: There's something sweet And almost kind But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined But now he's dear, and so unsure I wonder why I didn't see it there before

Beast: She glanced this way I thought I saw And when we touched she didn't shudder at my paw No it can't be, I'll just ignore But then she's never looked at me that way before

Belle: New and a bit alarming Who'd have ever thought that this could be? True that he's no Prince Charming But there's something in him that I simply didn't see

Lumière: Well, who'd have thought?

Mrs. Potts: Well, bless my soul

Cogsworth: Well, who'd have known?

Mrs. Potts: Well, who indeed?

Lumière: And who'd have guessed they'd come together on their own?

Mrs. Potts: It's so peculiar.

Lumière, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth: We'll wait and see, a few days more There may be something there that wasn't there before

Cogsworth: Perhaps there's something there That wasn't there before

Mrs. Potts: There may be something there that wasn't there before

Trivia

 * Seemingly, Paige O'Hara, the voice of Belle, had trouble singing the "new and a bit alarming" part of the song because it was rather high for her vocal range. So Alan Menken and Howard Ashman told her to sing it like Grammy-winner Barbra Streisand, and it obviously helped.
 * The song has some similarity with another track "Belle", especially the "New and a bit alarming" part with "Oh, isn't this amazing?"
 * Scenes from the song (particularly the snowball fight and their being in front of the fireplace) were used for the endings of Issues 3 and and 13 of the Beauty and the Beast comics line by Marvel Comics.