KEANE - A BAD DREAM

A BAD DREAM

KEANE BAND

SONGWRITERS: TOM CHAPLIN; RICHARD HUGHES & TIM RICE-OXLEY

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: UNDER THE IRON SEA

LABEL: INTERSCOP RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2006

 

            Keane are an English alternative rock band from Battle, East Sussex, formed in 1995. They met whilst at Tonbridge School together. The band currently comprises Tom Chaplin(lead vocals, electric/acoustic guitar), Tim Rice-Oxley(piano, synthesisers, bass guitar, backing vocals), Richard Hughes(drums, percussion, backing vocals), and Jesse Quin(bass guitar, acoustic/electric guitar, backing vocals). Their original line-up included founder and guitarist Dominic Scott, who left in 2001.

       Keane achieved mainstream, international success with the release of their debut álbum Hopes and Fears in 2004. Topping the UK charts, the album won the 2005 Brit Award for Best British Album and was the second best-selling British album of 2004. It is one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history. Their second album, Under the Iron Sea, released in 2006, topped the UK album charts and debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200. Their third álbum Perfect Symmetry was released in October 2008.

           In May 2008, both Hopes and Fears(number 13) and Under the Iron Sea(number 8) were voted by readers of Q magazine as among the best British albums ever, with Keane, The Beatles, Oasis and Radiohead the only artists having two albums in the top 20. In 2009, Hopes and Fears was listed as the ninth best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the UK. Their EP Night Train was released in May 2010. Their fourth studio álbum Strangeland was released in May 2012 and peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart.

         Keane are known for using keyboards as the lead instrument instead of guitar, differentiating them from most other rock bands. The inclusion of a distorted piano effect in 2006 and various synthesisers were a common feature in their music which developed on the second and third albums. Keane have sold over 13 million records worldwide.

           After the release of their compilation álbum The Best of Keane in 2013, the band took a hiatus, lasting nearly 5 years.

          The band returned after the hiatus with new music, announcing their fifth studio album titled Cause and Effect on 6 June 2019 and releasing the lead single from the album "The Way I Feel". A collection of the songs were written by Tim Rice-Oxley during his divorce, and after discussions with Tom who had visited Tim the previous year, decided to proceed with recording the songs for the album. Cause and Effect was released on 20 September 2019. After the release of the album, the band embarked on the Cause and Effect Tour, visiting Europe and Latin America, before the remainder of the tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why do I have to fly

Over every town, up and down the line?

And I'll die in the clouds above

And you that I defend, I do not love

 

I wake up, it's a bad dream

No one on my side, I was fighting

But I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

 

Where will I meet my fate?

Baby, I'm a man and I was born to hate

And when will I meet my end?

In a better time you could be my friend

 

I wake up, it's a bad dream

No one on my side, I was fighting

But I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side

But you're long gone, yeah, you're long gone now, yeah

 

Where do we go?

I don't even know

My strange old face

And I'm thinking about those days

And I'm thinking about those days

 

I wake up, it's a bad dream

No one on my side, I was fighting

But I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side

But you're long gone, yeah, you're long gone now, yeah.