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)
The Iron Sea
Keane Lyrics
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Somewhere waiting for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailing
Somewhere beyond the sea
He's watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
It's far beyond a star, it's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailing
Some sailing
These lyrics are about a person who is separated from their lover and longing to be reunited with them. They believe their lover is waiting for them on golden sands beyond the sea, watching the ships sail by. The singer yearns to be able to fly so that they can quickly reach their lover's arms. The love is described as being "far beyond a star" and "near beyond the moon," and the singer has no doubt that their heart will lead them to their lover soon. They imagine the happy reunion they will have on the other side of the sea, where they will kiss and be forever free from sailing away from each other.
The lyrics are very poetic and romantic, capturing the hope and longing of someone who is separated from their love. The use of imagery, such as the ships sailing by and the golden sands, adds to the dream-like quality of the song. The repetition of the phrase "beyond the sea" gives the sense of a far-off place that is just out of reach, but the singer is determined to reach it.
Line by Line Meaning
Somewhere beyond the sea
I dream of a place far out at sea, where my lover awaits me
Somewhere waiting for me
This place out at sea is calling me, and I must answer its call
My lover stands on golden sands
I imagine my lover on a beautiful sandy beach, looking out to the sea, waiting for me to arrive
And watches the ships that go sailing
My lover is watching the ships that pass by, longing for the day when I will finally arrive
He's watching for me
I know my lover is waiting for me, and I will do anything to reach him
If I could fly like birds on high
Sometimes I daydream about being able to fly, soaring through the sky like a bird
Then straight to his arms I'd go sailing
If I could fly, I would go straight to my lover's arms, sailing through the sky like a bird
It's far beyond a star, it's near beyond the moon
The place where my lover awaits is so far away, beyond even the stars and the moon
I know beyond a doubt
But I know deep in my heart that I will find my way there
My heart will lead me there soon
My heart is my guide, and it will lead me to the place where my lover awaits
We'll meet beyond the shore
I know that when I finally arrive, my lover and I will meet beyond the shore, where the sea meets the land
We'll kiss just as before
And we will embrace and kiss, just as we have done before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And we will be happy, beyond the sea, in our own little world
And never again I'll go sailing
I will never again set sail, for I will have found the one I have been searching for
Some sailing
It has been a long and difficult journey, but it has all been worth it
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: RICHARD DAVID HUGHES, TIMOTHY JAMES RICE-OXLEY, TOM CHAPLIN
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