Keane achieved mainstream, international success with the release of their debut album 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 album 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 album 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 album 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.
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Studio albums
Hopes and Fears (2004)
Under the Iron Sea (2006)
Perfect Symmetry (2008)
Strangeland (2012)
Cause and Effect (2019)
Back in Time
Keane Lyrics
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I am not leaving for the moment anymore
I don't wanna wake up
I have got time to kill
I am not leaving for the future anymore
I don't wanna wake
I don't wanna wake up
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
Time I wait for you
Hibernating hoping life will start again
Pedal in the water
The days all seem the same
I dreamed by day I shut light out, I escape
I don't wanna wake
I don't wanna wake up
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
Something backwards I forget, I forget
Time has wrapped his drowsy arms around my neck
Don't wanna wake up
Don't wanna wake up
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
She goes back in time
And back again
And back again
The lyrics to Keane's song "Back in Time" appear to speak to a desire to escape reality and live in the past - a time when the singer had more time to spare and was less preoccupied with the present and future. The first verse in particular suggests a reluctance to leave the present moment or to let go of the leisurely pace of the past, with the singer insisting that they have "got time to kill" and are "not leaving for the future anymore". The repetition of the line "I don't wanna wake up" reinforces the sense that the singer is trying to avoid the responsibilities and stresses of the present.
The second verse touches on the themes of boredom and stagnation, with the singer lamenting that they are "hibernating, hoping life will start again" and that "the days all seem the same". The line "I dreamed by day I shut light out, I escape" hints at a desire to create a separate reality within one's own mind, where one can temporarily forget about the difficulties of the present. The final verse suggests that time itself is part of the problem, with its "drowsy arms" holding the singer in a kind of suspended animation while they yearn for the past.
Line by Line Meaning
I have got time to kill
I have plenty of free time to use up
I am not leaving for the moment anymore
I have decided to stay in the present and not move forward
I don't wanna wake up
I do not want to face reality
She goes back in time
She travels to a past moment through memory or imagination
Time I wait for you
I am waiting for time to pass
Hibernating hoping life will start again
Waiting patiently for something good to happen in life
Pedal in the water
My days are uneventful and boring
The days all seem the same
My daily routine has become predictable and monotonous
I dreamed by day I shut light out, I escape
I daydream to forget about reality and escape the present moment
Something backwards I forget, I forget
I cannot remember something from the past
Time has wrapped his drowsy arms around my neck
Time has slowed down and is not moving quickly
Don't wanna wake up
I do not want to face reality
And back again
Returning to reality after imagining or remembering a past moment
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: RICHARD DAVID HUGHES, TIMOTHY JAMES RICE-OXLEY, TOM CHAPLIN
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