Bedshaped

Single infobox
Name = Bedshaped


Artist = Keane
from Album = Hopes and Fears
Released = August 16 2004
Format = 7" Vinyl, CD Single
Recorded = Helioscentric Studios, Rye, East Sussex
Genre = Piano rock, power ballad
Length = 4:39
Label = Island
Writer = Tim Rice-Oxley
Tom Chaplin
Richard Hughes
James Sanger
Producer = Andy Green
Last single = "Everybody’s Changing"
(2004)
This single = "Bedshaped"
(2004)
Next single = "This Is the Last Time"
(2004)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Hopes and Fears
prev_track = "Untitled 1"
Type = Studio
prev_no = 10/11(UK)
this_track = "Bedshaped"
track_no = 11/12(UK)
next_track =
next_no = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Promo cover
Type = single


Lower caption = Cover for the promo version release.

"Bedshaped" is a song by English piano 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.

Track listing

"'CD CID870
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"
#"Untitled 2"
#Bedshaped (Video)

UK, 7" Vinyl IS849
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"

Alternative versions

The Netherlands, 3CD

"All live tracks recorded at BNN"
CD1
Released October 15, 2004
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"
#"Everybody's Changing" (Live acoustic)
#"Can't Stop Now" (Live acoustic)

CD2
Released October 29, 2004
#"Bedshaped"
#"Untitled 2"
#"Somewhere Only We Know" (Live acoustic)
#"Bend and Break" (Live acoustic)
#"Bedshaped" (video)

CD3
Released November 12,2004
#"Bedshaped"
#"This Is the Last Time" (Live acoustic)
#"We Might as Well Be Strangers" (Live acoustic)
#"Bedshaped" (Live acoustic)
#"Bedshaped" (Live video)

Germany, 2CD, DVD

Released April 18, 2005
CD1
#"Bedshaped"
#"This Is the Last Time"
#"Untitled 2"
#"Everybody's Changing" (Live) (Airwaves Festival, Reykjavík, October 23 2004)
#"Somewhere Only We Know" (Live) (Forum, London, May 10 2004)

CD2
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"
#"This Is the Last Time" (Live acoustic) (Mill St. Brewery, Toronto, September 20 2004)
#"Bedshaped" (Live) (Brixton Academy, London, November 17 2004)
#"We Might as Well Be Strangers" (Live) (Columbiafritz, Berlin, May 19 2004)

DVD
#"Bedshaped" (Video)
#"Somewhere Only We Know" (Video)
#"Everybody's Changing" (Video)
#"This Is the Last Time" (Video)

witzerland, CD

Released April 18, 2005
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"
#"This Is the Last Time" (Live acoustic) (Mill St. Brewery, Toronto, September 20, 2004)
#"Bedshaped" (Live) (Brixton Academy, London, November 17, 2004)

Austria, 2CD

Released April 18, 2005CD1
#"Bedshaped"
#"This Is the Last Time"
#"Untitled 2"
#"Everybody's Changing" (Live) (Airwaves Festival, Reykjavík, October 23 2004)
#"Somewhere Only We Know" CD2
#"Bedshaped"
#"Something In Me Was Dying"
#"This Is the Last Time" (Live acoustic) (Mill St. Brewery, Toronto, September 20th 2004)
#"Bedshaped" (Live) (Brixton Academy, London, November 17 2004)
#"We Might as Well Be Strangers" (Live) (Columbiafritz, Berlin, May 19 2004)

Promo version

#"Bedshaped"

Composition and recording

"Bedshaped" was composed sometime in 2001 by Tim Rice-Oxley. It was originally recorded at Les Essarts, France, and first released as a B-side on the Fierce Panda release of "Everybody's Changing" in May 2003. James Sanger is credited on this song as the fourth composer.

Musical structure

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").
*Length: 4:37
*Tempo: 76bpm
*Key: E (maj)
*Time signature: 4/4
*Instrumentation: piano, drums, bass, synthesizer, vox synthesizer

Information about song's meaning

Rice-Oxley posted an explanation of the song on the official messageboard:cquote| [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(...) [cite web|url=http://www.keaneshaped.co.uk/faq/#about|title=Keaneshaped - FAQ - What are the songs about?|accessdate=July|accessyear=2006]

B-sides

omething in Me Was Dying

Rice-Oxley is believed to have said to a fan that this song was written about "a most excellent young lady".
*Length: 4:46
*Tempo: 107bpm
*Key: G (maj)
*Time signature: 4/4
*Genre: Rock pop
*Instrumentation: piano, drums, bass, synthesizer

Untitled 2

*Length: 3:02
*Tempo: 110bpm
*Key: Bb (B flat, maj)
*Time signature: 3/4
*Genre: Ballad
*Instrumentation: electric piano, bass, drums

Cover versions

* Italian opera singer Vittorio Grigolo recorded an Italian language version of "Bedshaped", renamed "Cosi", which appears on his album "In the Hands of Love".
* The band Marillion recorded a cover on their live album "Friends".

Music videos

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 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.

Chart performance

Notes

External links

* [http://www.keanemusic.com Official site]
* [http://www.keaneshaped.co.uk/disco/bed.htm Keaneshaped - Information about record]
* [http://www.keane.fr/groupe.php?choix=disco/bedshaped Keane.fr - Information about record in French]