The final track and third single from Keane’s debut album is described by Tim Rice-Oxley on his messageboard as:
… 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...
[Verse 1]
Many's the time I ran with you down
The rainy roads of our old town
Many the lives we lived in each day
And buried altogether
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't laugh at me
Don't look away
[Chorus]
You'll follow me back with the sun in your eyes and on your own
Bedshaped and legs of stone
You'll knock on my door and, up, we'll go
In white light, I don't think so
[Post-Chorus]
But what do I know? What do I know? I know
[Verse 2]
I know you think I'm holding you down
And I've fallen by the wayside now
And I don't understand the same things as you
But I do
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't laugh at me
Don't look away
[Chorus]
You'll follow me back with the sun in your eyes and on your own
Bedshaped and legs of stone
You'll knock on my door and, up, we'll go
In white light, I don't think so
[Post-Chorus]
But what do I know? What do I know? I know
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
Oh, and, up, we'll go
In white light, I don't think so
[Outro]
But what do I know? What do I know?
I know
Bedshaped was written by Tim Rice-Oxley & Tom Chaplin & Richard Hughes & James Sanger.
Bedshaped was produced by Keane & Andy Green & James Sanger.