Bedshaped - "bedshaped is 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 you started them. i
guess there's some anger at a friend who wants to move on in search of new,
exciting, more sophisticated things, leaving behind the simple things you used
to share....and a hope that they'll eventually want to get away from the bright
lights and come back home. it's a sad and angry song, but also full of hope. i
hope that makes sense.

I think i'm right in saying that in hospital when someone is ill or infirm and
has to spend a lot of time in bed they can become 'bedshaped'. it sounds a bit
depressing...well i guess it is a bit depressing in reality, but in the context
of the song i wanted to suggest old age and frailty, along the lines that i
mentioned before about two old friends coming back together in the twilight of
their lives. it's great that you guys like bedshaped...it's a song that means a
lot to us." - Tim - messageboard - Source

"I remember the words for Bedshaped; lying in bed one night and they just
suddenly all emerged and I wrote them all down, and then it was finished which
was really good - I like it when that happens! The word 'bedshaped' - I don't
know if it's a made up word, but my mum's always talking about people being
bedshaped, just from spending too much time being bed-ridden basically. It's
quite a sad image of someone stuck there, stuck in a bed, until they become
completely useless and start to lose their humanity. But just that idea of
crumbling and being really frail and decrepid is something that eventually
happens to everyone. That, I guess was the basis for the song in a way. So
whatever happens when you're younger, even if you go off in search of glamour
and ambitious and exciting things; once you get to your really old age, you've
got all that side of life that just disappears. - Tim - Strangers DVD