Song · Keane
“Bedshaped” by Keane
From the album Hopes and Fears (2004)
“Bedshaped” by Keane appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2004 and 2006. It was first released in 2004 on the album Hopes and Fears. Its best result is #112 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,284 alternative song of all time.
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"Bedshaped" was the third single Keane lifted from Hopes and Fears in 2004, though Tim Rice-Oxley had written it back in 2001 and the band first tucked it away as a B-side on the Fierce Panda issue of "Everybody's Changing" in May 2003. Promoted to the A-side, it handed them a third straight top-10 UK hit, stalling right at number 10, and went top 20 in Denmark and the Netherlands.
By Rice-Oxley's own account it's about getting left behind by a former friend or lover, and wishing they'd tire of the bright lights and head home so the pair of you can finish out your lives together the way you began them. He called it sad and angry but hopeful, and the title borrows a hospital notion: lie in bed long enough and you become bedshaped. James Sanger shares the writing credit with Rice-Oxley, Tom Chaplin and Richard Hughes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 220 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 276 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 112 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
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