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From : Maximum90s
Added: Mar 25, 2009
"Bedshaped" is a song by English rock band Keane, released as the third single from Hopes and Fears. This is the first single released after the album, and it sold about 22,000 copies in its first week of release, charting at number 10. After the mysterious string-based intro, a honky tonk-reminiscent piano completes the main riff, with an E maj chord. Tom Chaplin vocals are introduced with the song clocking 59 seconds. The song reaches its highest emotional point at 1:32, with the first chorus. After the second chorus, a small piano-riff gives place to the song's instrumental bridge which featured gothic voices, ending with an instrumental chorus with guitar alike sounds, produced by Rice-Oxley's Yamaha CX7 (these are sung by Chaplin during some live performances) to fade with Chaplin singing "But what do I know?, what do I know? I know". The instrumentation used on the song includes all instruments used through all the Hopes and Fears era (excepting the acoustic guitar and effects used on "The Happy Soldier"). Rice-Oxley posted an explanation of the song on the official messageboard: [The song] is about feeling that you've been "left behind" by an old friend or lover, and about hoping that you'll be reunited one day so that you can live out the end of your lives together the way you started them (...) a hope that they'll eventually want to get away from the bright lights and come back home. it's a sad and angry song, but also full of hope. I think i'm right in saying that in hospital when someone is ill and has to spend a lot of time in bed they can become 'bedshaped'. It sounds a bit depressing (...)but in the context of the song I wanted to suggest old age and frailty(...)" The video for the song is available on the enhanced CD single version, as well as the Bonus DVD edition of Hopes and Fears and on Strangers. The video is directed by Corin Hardy, and based on his animated short film "Butterfly", making use of stop-motion animation. The video shows a boy at the beginning, that takes some alcohol and is naked. He is lonely and sad, and goes to a bathroom and writes there some of the song's lyrics such as 'don't laugh at me' and "don't look away". He, at the end gets some clothes, that don't fit him, and when he goes out of the bathroom, sees some little children on a building, after seeing them for a while, the childrens become monsters and he goes running back to the bathroom. At the end, the walls explode and the boy is found on a white background with the keane animated members and the lyrics he wrote. The band appear throughout as animation within the background of the main action, and as drawings towards the end of the video. To achieve this, Hardy's friend David Lupton was recruited to hand-draw 500 pictures of the band in the space of a week. The music video was produced by Kit Hawkins and Adam Tudhope for White House Pictures. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]
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