Álbum Perfect symmetry de Keane - Canciones
Perfect symmetry
2008 | 
Estilo(s) | Alternative Rock,Synth-pop,Indie Rock
Sello | Island Records
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Reseña
El tercer álbum de la banda, Perfect Symmetry, de 2008, es su obra más experimental y una celebración del pop de los años 80. En este trabajo, Keane abandona casi por completo su sonido característico de piano-rock para abrazar los sintetizadores, las guitarras eléctricas y los ritmos bailables, creando su disco más colorido y desenfadado.
Por esta razón, el sonido del álbum es una reinvención radical. La banda se inspira abiertamente en sus héroes de los 80, como The Smiths o Simple Minds, con un uso prominente de sintetizadores y guitarras con "chorus". De hecho, es la primera vez que la guitarra cobra un papel tan protagonista en uno de sus discos.
Además, el álbum está repleto de canciones de pop eufórico. El single principal, "Spiralling", es un ejemplo perfecto de este nuevo sonido: un tema de synth-pop con un ritmo irresistible. Asimismo, la canción que da título al disco, "Perfect Symmetry", es un himno de pop de estadio de una calidad excepcional. Ciertamente, es su trabajo más optimista.
En definitiva, "Perfect Symmetry" es un álbum valiente y muy divertido. Es el sonido de una banda que se libera de las expectativas y que se permite jugar y experimentar. Por consiguiente, aunque desconcertó a algunos de sus seguidores más puristas, es una de las obras más interesantes y sónicamente ricas de Keane.
Listado de canciones del álbum Perfect symmetry
- SpirallingVer letra 4:20
[X]letra de Spiralling
I'm waiting for my moment to come
I'm waiting for the movie to begin
I'm waiting for a revelation
I'm waiting for someone to count me in
Because now I only see my dreams in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on everything that I love
Cold like some magnificent skyline
Out of my reach but always in my eye line
Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
I fashioned you from jewels and stone
I made you in the image of myself
I gave you everything you wanted
So you would never know anything else
But every time I reach for you, you slip through my fingers
Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that I had planned
The map of my world gets smaller as I sit here
Pulling at the loose threads
Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
Did you want to be a winner?
Did you want to be an icon?
Did you want to be famous?
Did you want to be the president?
Did you want to start a war?
Did you want to have a family?
Did you want to be in love?
Did you want to be in love?
I never saw the light
I never saw the light
I waited up all night
But I never saw the light
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
We're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling - The lovers are losingVer letra 5:04
[X]letra de The lovers are losing
I dreamed I was drowning
In the river Thames
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin
(I dreamed I was drifting
On the howling wind
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin)
Slipped away from your open hands
Into river
Saw your face looking back at me
I saw my past, and I saw my future
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing
I dreamed I was watching
The young lovers dance
I reached out to touch your hair
But I was watching from a distance
We cling to love like a skidding car
Clings to a corner
I tried to hold onto what we are
The more I squeeze, the quicker we're over
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
(I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin)
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing at all
(You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing)
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But in the final reckoning
Looks like
The lovers are losing - Better than thisVer letra 4:04
[X]letra de Better than this
Is this what you meant?
Is this
What you dreamed of?
When you were making
Your plans
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you
And I belong?
(Oh, ah, oh)
Just keep your eyes
On the road
And nothing can go wrong
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up
To the window
Through the paper
A refracted sun
(Oh, ah, oh)
I can see all the things
I wish that I'd done
You can hang your hopes
On the bedsits masses
You can put your faith
In the foreign
You can tell yourself
You can do your best
You could do so much
Better than this
Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something
But you're too late
And you
Wouldn't want it anyway
Just a photograph
From the wrong time
'Cause there
Is no soap star
Holding your hand
You can see yourself
In a freeze-frame
Must be someone else
Using your name
And everyone
Will be the same
And everyone will __
And everywhere
You'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this - You haven' t told me anything 3:47
- Perfect symmetryVer letra 5:13
[X]letra de Perfect symmetry
I shake through the wreckage for signs of life
Scrolling through the paragraphs
Clicking through the photographs
I wish I could make sense of what we do
Burning down the capitols
Wisest of the animals
Who are you? What are you living for?
Tooth for tooth. Maybe we'll go one more
This life is lived in perfect symmetry
What I do that will be done to me
Read page after page of analysis
Looking for the final score
We're no closer than we were before
Who are you? What are you fighting for?
Holy truth? Brother, I choose this mortal life
Lived in perfect symmetry
What I do that will be done to me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Love, maybe you feel it too
And maybe you'll find,
Life is unkind
And over so soon
There is no golden gate
There's no heaven waiting for you
Oh, boy, you ought to leave this town
Get out while you can
The needle's running out
The voices in the streets you love
Everything is better when you hear that shout
Spineless dreamers hide in churches
Pieces of pieces of rush-hour buses
I dream in e-mails, worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages
Wrap yourself around me
Wrap yourself around me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Maybe I'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
I dream in e-mails, worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages - You don' t see me 4:03
- Again and againVer letra 3:50
[X]letra de Again and again
Was it all in real time or was it just in my mind?
Was I just a ghost passing through you
Clinging to the wreckage, till I got the message?
Hanging at the edge of the room
Give me something that's real
Give me half of your bitterest pill
Something from under the surface you actually feel
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in your eyes, in your eyes
They were just easy lies
The lightest words are heavy and promises are easy
And no one's ever happy or sad for very long
Well just because I said it, it doesn't mean I meant it
I guess that was the way all along
I'm just shaping the sound
I'm just turning the syllables round
Dipping my toe in the water and watching you drown
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in my eyes, in my eyes
They were just easy lies
And we've been a long time waiting
And it's been a lifetime in the making
We said "When you are alone and afraid
I will come to your aid"
Well was it just a dream, just a dream?
Because it was real to me
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
We say these words again and again
And again and again - Playing alongVer letra 5:35
[X]letra de Playing along
At the start of the news day, the fires begin
In words and in pictures, but I'm not listening
I'm not taking it in
I'm going to go to the country, where nothing goes on
Going to bury my head, where I can't hear the sound of bombs
Playing along
Me, I'm just playing along
You and I, so many good people all
Just playing along
I'm going to go to a bar, where is the jukebox is on
Going to shut out the noise, with a rock'n'roll song
Playing along
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
Tell us a tale of the proud and the free
Sing us a swingtime American melody
From 'Follow The Fleet'
Me, I'm just playing along
You and I, a billion people all
Just playing along
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think - Pretend that you' re alone 3:47
Músicos invitados: Jim Hunt (Saxophone) - Black burning heartVer letra 5:24
[X]letra de Black burning heart
I wish that I could be
In the cellars of the sea
And disappear in them
Never to be seen again
Leave this life
Its unrelenting appetite
For feeding off the weak
Who never had their turn to speak
The sky will be my shroud
A monument of cloud
If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black
Give me your hand
Cut the skin, let me in
The molecules of us
Bleeding into one again
The sky will be my shroud
A cenotaph of cloud
If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black
Forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
I know everything you said was right and I suppose
Everything is here forever till it goes
You gave it all away, kept nothing for yourself
Just a picture on the shelf
Je souhaiterai m'immerger dans les profondeurs des mers
Y disparaître pour ne plus jamais être vu
Burning up
Now I'm racing down a road I don't recognise
I realise I've forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
Turn backMúsicos invitados: Jesse Quin (Guitar), Anaël Train (Vocals [French Vocal]) - Love is the endVer letra 5:37
[X]letra de Love is the end
Now is the time of our comfort and plenty
These are the days we've been working for
Nothing can touch us and nothing can harm us
No, nothing goes wrong anymore
Singing a song with your feet on the dashboard
A cigarette streaming into the night
These are the things that I want to remember
I want to remember you by
They won't come again
Because love is the end
Oh no, my friend
Love is the end
I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean
Looking for somewhere to start anew
And when I was drowning in that holy water
All I could think of was you
Woah, my friend
Love is the end
So best not pretend
Because love is the end
Take it back, don't let it die
Or rage against the fall of night
Because I still do, depend on you
So don't say those words, you wrung me through
Woah, oh oh
Love is the end
So best not pretend
Because love is the end
So I tread the only road
The only road I know
Nowhere to go but home
Nowhere to go
Maybe our time is up
But still you can't abandon
All the principles of love
Don't say those words
Don't say those wordsMúsicos invitados: Chris Fish (Cello), Ian Harris (Saw), Jo Silverston (Saw), Stephen Hussey (Violin)
El tercer álbum de la banda, Perfect Symmetry, de 2008, es su obra más experimental y una celebración del pop de los años 80. En este trabajo, Keane abandona casi por completo su sonido característico de piano-rock para abrazar los sintetizadores, las guitarras eléctricas y los ritmos bailables, creando su disco más colorido y desenfadado.
Por esta razón, el sonido del álbum es una reinvención radical. La banda se inspira abiertamente en sus héroes de los 80, como The Smiths o Simple Minds, con un uso prominente de sintetizadores y guitarras con "chorus". De hecho, es la primera vez que la guitarra cobra un papel tan protagonista en uno de sus discos.
Además, el álbum está repleto de canciones de pop eufórico. El single principal, "Spiralling", es un ejemplo perfecto de este nuevo sonido: un tema de synth-pop con un ritmo irresistible. Asimismo, la canción que da título al disco, "Perfect Symmetry", es un himno de pop de estadio de una calidad excepcional. Ciertamente, es su trabajo más optimista.
En definitiva, "Perfect Symmetry" es un álbum valiente y muy divertido. Es el sonido de una banda que se libera de las expectativas y que se permite jugar y experimentar. Por consiguiente, aunque desconcertó a algunos de sus seguidores más puristas, es una de las obras más interesantes y sónicamente ricas de Keane.
[X]
I'm waiting for my moment to comeletra de Spiralling
I'm waiting for the movie to begin
I'm waiting for a revelation
I'm waiting for someone to count me in
Because now I only see my dreams in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on everything that I love
Cold like some magnificent skyline
Out of my reach but always in my eye line
Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
I fashioned you from jewels and stone
I made you in the image of myself
I gave you everything you wanted
So you would never know anything else
But every time I reach for you, you slip through my fingers
Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that I had planned
The map of my world gets smaller as I sit here
Pulling at the loose threads
Now we're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
Did you want to be a winner?
Did you want to be an icon?
Did you want to be famous?
Did you want to be the president?
Did you want to start a war?
Did you want to have a family?
Did you want to be in love?
Did you want to be in love?
I never saw the light
I never saw the light
I waited up all night
But I never saw the light
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
We're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
[X]
I dreamed I was drowningletra de The lovers are losing
In the river Thames
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin
(I dreamed I was drifting
On the howling wind
I dreamed I had nothing at all
Nothing but my own skin)
Slipped away from your open hands
Into river
Saw your face looking back at me
I saw my past, and I saw my future
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing
I dreamed I was watching
The young lovers dance
I reached out to touch your hair
But I was watching from a distance
We cling to love like a skidding car
Clings to a corner
I tried to hold onto what we are
The more I squeeze, the quicker we're over
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
(I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing but my own skin)
I dreamed I had nothing at all; Nothing at all
(You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But any way you look at this
Looks like
The lovers are losing)
You take the pieces of the dreams that you have
Cos you don't like the way they seem to be going
You cut them up and spread them out on the floor
You're full of hope as you begin rearranging
Put it all back together
But in the final reckoning
Looks like
The lovers are losing
[X]
Is this what you meant?letra de Better than this
Is this
What you dreamed of?
When you were making
Your plans
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you
And I belong?
(Oh, ah, oh)
Just keep your eyes
On the road
And nothing can go wrong
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up
To the window
Through the paper
A refracted sun
(Oh, ah, oh)
I can see all the things
I wish that I'd done
You can hang your hopes
On the bedsits masses
You can put your faith
In the foreign
You can tell yourself
You can do your best
You could do so much
Better than this
Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something
But you're too late
And you
Wouldn't want it anyway
Just a photograph
From the wrong time
'Cause there
Is no soap star
Holding your hand
You can see yourself
In a freeze-frame
Must be someone else
Using your name
And everyone
Will be the same
And everyone will __
And everywhere
You'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
[X]
I shake through the wreckage for signs of lifeletra de Perfect symmetry
Scrolling through the paragraphs
Clicking through the photographs
I wish I could make sense of what we do
Burning down the capitols
Wisest of the animals
Who are you? What are you living for?
Tooth for tooth. Maybe we'll go one more
This life is lived in perfect symmetry
What I do that will be done to me
Read page after page of analysis
Looking for the final score
We're no closer than we were before
Who are you? What are you fighting for?
Holy truth? Brother, I choose this mortal life
Lived in perfect symmetry
What I do that will be done to me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Love, maybe you feel it too
And maybe you'll find,
Life is unkind
And over so soon
There is no golden gate
There's no heaven waiting for you
Oh, boy, you ought to leave this town
Get out while you can
The needle's running out
The voices in the streets you love
Everything is better when you hear that shout
Spineless dreamers hide in churches
Pieces of pieces of rush-hour buses
I dream in e-mails, worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages
Wrap yourself around me
Wrap yourself around me
As the needle slips into the run-out groove
Maybe I'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
Maybe you'll feel it too
I dream in e-mails, worn-out phrases
Mile after mile of just empty pages
[X]
Was it all in real time or was it just in my mind?letra de Again and again
Was I just a ghost passing through you
Clinging to the wreckage, till I got the message?
Hanging at the edge of the room
Give me something that's real
Give me half of your bitterest pill
Something from under the surface you actually feel
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in your eyes, in your eyes
They were just easy lies
The lightest words are heavy and promises are easy
And no one's ever happy or sad for very long
Well just because I said it, it doesn't mean I meant it
I guess that was the way all along
I'm just shaping the sound
I'm just turning the syllables round
Dipping my toe in the water and watching you drown
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
It was in my eyes, in my eyes
They were just easy lies
And we've been a long time waiting
And it's been a lifetime in the making
We said "When you are alone and afraid
I will come to your aid"
Well was it just a dream, just a dream?
Because it was real to me
We say these words again and again
But they still sound the same
We say these words again and again
And again and again
[X]
At the start of the news day, the fires beginletra de Playing along
In words and in pictures, but I'm not listening
I'm not taking it in
I'm going to go to the country, where nothing goes on
Going to bury my head, where I can't hear the sound of bombs
Playing along
Me, I'm just playing along
You and I, so many good people all
Just playing along
I'm going to go to a bar, where is the jukebox is on
Going to shut out the noise, with a rock'n'roll song
Playing along
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
Tell us a tale of the proud and the free
Sing us a swingtime American melody
From 'Follow The Fleet'
Me, I'm just playing along
You and I, a billion people all
Just playing along
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
I'm going to turn up the volume
Till I can't even think
Músicos invitados: Jim Hunt (Saxophone)
[X]
I wish that I could beletra de Black burning heart
In the cellars of the sea
And disappear in them
Never to be seen again
Leave this life
Its unrelenting appetite
For feeding off the weak
Who never had their turn to speak
The sky will be my shroud
A monument of cloud
If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black
Give me your hand
Cut the skin, let me in
The molecules of us
Bleeding into one again
The sky will be my shroud
A cenotaph of cloud
If we could turn back
You can paper over the crack
But it will return now
And your heart will burn black
Forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
I know everything you said was right and I suppose
Everything is here forever till it goes
You gave it all away, kept nothing for yourself
Just a picture on the shelf
Je souhaiterai m'immerger dans les profondeurs des mers
Y disparaître pour ne plus jamais être vu
Burning up
Now I'm racing down a road I don't recognise
I realise I've forgotten my way home
Forgotten everything that I know
Every day a false start
And it burns my heart
Turn back
[X]
Now is the time of our comfort and plentyletra de Love is the end
These are the days we've been working for
Nothing can touch us and nothing can harm us
No, nothing goes wrong anymore
Singing a song with your feet on the dashboard
A cigarette streaming into the night
These are the things that I want to remember
I want to remember you by
They won't come again
Because love is the end
Oh no, my friend
Love is the end
I took off my clothes and I ran to the ocean
Looking for somewhere to start anew
And when I was drowning in that holy water
All I could think of was you
Woah, my friend
Love is the end
So best not pretend
Because love is the end
Take it back, don't let it die
Or rage against the fall of night
Because I still do, depend on you
So don't say those words, you wrung me through
Woah, oh oh
Love is the end
So best not pretend
Because love is the end
So I tread the only road
The only road I know
Nowhere to go but home
Nowhere to go
Maybe our time is up
But still you can't abandon
All the principles of love
Don't say those words
Don't say those words