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Keane are a popular English piano rock band formed in 1997. Its members are Tim Rice-Oxley (pianist/composer/bassist/backing vocalist), Tom Chaplin (lead singer/organist/acoustic guitar), and Richard Hughes (drummer/live backing vocalist).
Singles
- I float through the ceiling
And into your eyes
Call me what you like
- And don't make a sound
The wolf's at the door
And all your street fighting years won't help you anymore
- You're aching you're breaking
And I can see the pain in your eyes
Says "Everybody's changing and I don't know why."
- The last time
You fall on me for anything you like
Your one last line
You fall on me for anything you like
- And if you have a minute why don't we go,
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything,
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
- I know you think I'm holding you down
And I've fallen by the wayside now,
And I don't understand the same things as you
But I do
- Bitter and hardened heart
Aching, waiting for life to start
Meet me in the morning when you wake up
Meet me in the morning then you'll wake up
- I need a place
That's hidden in the deep
Where lonely angels sing you to your sleep
Though all the world is broken- "Atlantic"
- Nothing left besides this old cathedral
Just the sad lonely spires
How do you make it right?
Oh but you try
Is it any wonder I'm tired?
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight?
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right?- "Is It Any Wonder?"
- Oh crystal ball, crystal ball
Save us all
Tell me life is beautiful
Mirror, mirror on the wall
- Well for a lonely soul, you're having such a nice time
For a lonely soul it seems to me
that you're having such a nice time
You're having such a nice time
Hopes and Fears
- We might as well be strangers in another town
We might as well be living in another time
We might as well
We might as well
We might as well be strangers
For all I know of you know
For all I know- "We Might as Well Be Strangers", Hopes and Fears (2004)
- For a moment your eyes open and you know
All the things I ever wanted you to know
I don't know you
And I don't want to
Til the moment your eyes open and you know- "Your Eyes Open"
- Lonely people
Tumble downwards
And my heart opens up to you
When she says she has no time
For you now- "She Has No Time"
- The motion
keeps my heart
running- "Can't Stop Now"
- I should know
Can anybody find their home?
Out of everyone
Can anybody find their home?
Lost in the sun
Can anybody find their home?- "Sunshine"
- I saw you
Were sick and tired of my wrong turns
If you only knew
The way I feel I'd really love to tell you
But I
Can never find the words to say
And I don't know why
I can't find the words to say
I don't know why...- "On A Day Like Today"
- Who ate your heart?
You're cold inside
You're not the one I hoped for
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side- "Untitled 1"
Under the Iron Sea
- You must think I'm a fool;
So prosaic and awkward and all.
D'you think you've got me down?
D'you think I've never been out of this town?- "Leaving So Soon?", Under the Iron Sea (2006)
- Where will I meet my fate?
Baby I'm a man, I was born to hate, and
When will I meet my end
In a better time you could be my friend...- "A Bad Dream"
- Say a word or two to brighten
My day
D'you think that you could see your way
To lay yourself down?
And make it so but you don't want to know
You take much more than I'd ever ask for...- "Hamburg Song"
- Time goes by at such a pace
It's funny how it's easy to forget her face
You hide the cracks the facts will found you
Turn your back and leave the lonely days behind you now- "Put It Behind You"
- But I was made the way I am
I'm not a stone
I'm just a man
Lay down your arms
And I will lay down mine
Rip back the time that we've been wasting- "Try Again"
- Who says a river can't leave its waters?
Who says you walk in a line?
Who says a city can't change its borders?
Who says you're mine?- "Broken Toy"
- You will lie in a deep sleep
That's when your prince's crown
Cracks and falls down
Your castle hollow and cold
You've wandered so far
From the person you are
Let go brother, let go
'Cause now we all know...- "The Frog Prince"
Tim Rice-Oxley
- I don't know whether Keane will survive.
- Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
- I have half of a great song.. a song called "The Frog Prince".
- Some people won't like that we're not hard rock. We're not like Coldplay.
- I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
- I want an 11 out of ten, because I'm soooo sexy.
- Tom sleepwalks in a very amusing way occasionally. He's been known to wake up in hotel lobbies in his pants.
- I don't think anyone could be a good artist, without being a bit of a freak.
Tom Chaplin
- People often say that they wish they'd been around in the 60s, but we're happy just where we are. We love rock's back catalogue, and now we've got a chance to add to it. After all, tunes never go out of fashion.
- We've never wanted to be a small, cult band. We want to get our music heard by as many people as we possibly can, because that's why we're making it.
- This song ("She Has No Time") is about a girl who gave me the best weekend of my life... and never called again.
- It was crazy to play at the Forum the day after the album came out!
- When I was a kid I remember going with a microphone shouting "I am so cool!"
- I don't have a problem singing those words. Tim's being honest. And I think as a band, that's what people like about us. We expose real feelings.
- It's a small bird... native to Britain.
- That would just be like a little mouse in the corner of my massive ego.
Richard Hughes
- Giving the loudest person I knew a microphone wasn't something I was very keen on.
- I'm the drummer from Keane, why would anyone give a shit?
- Well the fact is that in 1998 we were supported by Coldplay…
- Is that supposed to be on fire?
- Whoa! That's on fire!
- What are you filming me for?
- Good looking drummers.
- When asked about similarities between Keane and U2