Keane

Released: October 1, 2007

Songwriter: Brian May Freddie Mercury John Deacon Roger Taylor David Bowie

Producer: BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

Pressure, pushing down on me
Pressing down on you, no man ask for
Under pressure that burns a building down
Splits a family in two, puts people on streets, that's okay

It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, "Let me out"
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people, people on streets, okay

Chipping around, kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
People on streets, people on streets

It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, "Let me out"
Pray tomorrow gets me higher, high, high
Pressure on people, people on streets

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work, keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn, why, why, why?
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love

Insanity laughs, under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love?

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance, this is ourselves
Under pressure, under pressure, pressure

Keane, formed as The Lotus Eaters by Dominic Scott, Richard Hughes and Tim Rice-Oxley, who nearly became a member of Coldplay, in 1995, and soon joined by singer Tom Chaplin in 1997, became one of the leading British bands of the 2000s alongside groups such as Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Travis and Muse. After Scott left the group in 2001, Keane had a commercial breakthrough with their first full-length studio album, Hopes and Fears, scoring top 10 hits with “Somewhere Only We Know”, “Everybody’s Changing” and “Bedshaped”. The group gained recognition for their piano-based rock sound, which mostly lacked guitars after Scott’s departure.

Keane continued to have similar commercial success with their next three albums, Under the Iron Sea (2006), Perfect Symmetry (2008) and Strangeland (2012), bringing bassist Jesse Quin into the lineup in 2008. The group then went on an extended hiatus after releasing a greatest hits compilation, but it was revealed in January 2019 that they had begun working on new material.

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