There Must Be Something More

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"There Must Be Something More" is a song from Charlotte's Web the 1973 Hanna Barbera animtion musical. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. The song is written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman.

Fern is learning about love from a little runt she saved from an "untimely death", when her father was about to "do away with it". Fern found it to be an injustice, and relates herself, saying to her father if she had been small, would he have killed her too? Her father gives in and lets her raise the pig she names Wilbur. Fern learns about Love and Life through Wilbur, and sings a song to tell Wilbur just how much she loves him... The song goes through the first two weeks of Wilbur's life with Fern

There must be something more to us than you and me

It must be tangled up somehow with destiny

I used to think the sum of one and one was two

But we add up to more, me and you

When we are close together it's so plain to see

Together we are better than we used to be

I don't know how to say the things I'm thinking of

But the something more I'm feeling must be love

I used to think the sum of one and one was two

But we add up to more me and you

I don't know how to say the things I'm thinking of

But the something more I'm feeling must be love

At the Fair In Wilbur's Pen:

Reprise:

FERN:

There must be something more to us than you and me...

(humming...)

Henry Fussy comes along and Fern stops singing to Wilbur.

WILBUR:

The something more I'm feeling must be...

Wilbur gets upset and thinks Fern doesn't love him anymore and that she didn't even say goodbye to him. Charlotte explains to Wilbur that Fern still loves him, but is growing up and "seeing Henry Fussy with new eyes".

[edit] Song Placement

The song is sung by Fern to a baby Wilbur in a motherly way. The song is then reprised briefly by Wilbur when Fern gets a bit older begins to show an interest in young "Henry Fussy". Suddenly Wilbur is no longer as much of a priority in Fern's life. Charlotte explains to Wilbur that this is the nature of the world.