Keane

Released: September 26, 2005

Featuring: Faultline

Songwriter: Elton John Bernie Taupin

Producer: Keane David Kosten

When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

So goodbye, yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plow

Back to the howling old owl in the wood
Hunting the horny-back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh

What do you think you'll do then?
I bet they shoot down the plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh

So goodbye, yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plow

Back to the howling old owl in the wood
Hunting the horny-back toad
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh

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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