Keane - Under the Iron Sea Album

Under the Iron Sea Track Listing

1. "Atlantic" – 4:13
2. "Is It Any Wonder?" – 3:01
3. "Nothing In My Way" – 4:00
4. "Leaving So Soon?" – 3:58
5. "A Bad Dream" – 5:04
6. "Hamburg Song" – 4:37
7. "Put It Behind You" + "The Iron Sea" – 6:33
8. "Crystal Ball" – 3:53
9. "Try Again" – 4:27
10. "Broken Toy" – 6:07
11. "The Frog Prince" – 4:22

Keane are an English piano rock band, first established in Battle, East Sussex in 1995, taking their current name in 1997. The group is comprised of composer, bassist, and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, lead vocalist Tom Chaplin and drummer Richard Hughes.

Under the Iron Sea is the second studio album by English piano rock band Keane, released in 2006. During its first week on sale in the UK, the album went to #1, selling 222,297 copies according to figures from the Official Chart Company. In the United States, the album came in at a respectable #4 on the Billboard 200, selling 75,702 units in its first week. As of January 22, the album had sold above 2,500,000 copies worldwide.

The band describes Under the Iron Sea as a progression from Hopes and Fears with electronic influences, describing the record as a "sinister fairytale-world-gone-wrong".

My favorite track off this album "Is It Any Wonder?".

Keane - Is It Any Wonder Lyrics

I
I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true
and so on

but now I think how I was wrong
And you were laughing along
And now I look a fool for thinking you were on, my side

Is it any wonder I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right

Sometimes
It's hard to know where I stand
It's hard to know where I am
Well maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand

But sometimes
I get the feeling that I'm
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme, a soundbite

Is it any wonder that I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right
oh, these days
After all the misery you made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed

Nothing left inside this old cathedral
Just the sad lonely spires
How do you make it right

Oh, but you try
Is it any wonder I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right
oh, these days
After all the misery you made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed

Keane - Is It Any Wonder Lyrics