Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: piano
Song Meaning of “Sovereign Light Café” by Keane
Sovereign Light Café is a reflection of longing for times of innocence and freedom, particularly in regards to a relationship.
The song begins with lead singer Tom Chaplin’s fond reminiscence of this café, a place — full of promise for young lovers — he used to visit, to which he brings the listener in the chorus. It’s a place, not bound by reality, to run away, to forget time and pressure.
It’s a place where memories remain and a sense of hope remains. Chaplin reminisces and remembers the laughter and the fun, as he wishes to return to the Sovereign Light Café. He wants to escape the struggles of adulthood, for a time to be reunited with his former youthful innocence.
He asks the listener to join him and together, make a wish for a dream as if it were real and travel through the mist of time with him to that distant future.
The chorus conveys the realization that however hard we try to hold onto the past, time is relentless. It doesn’t stop for anyone or anything and it moves on, even when we are not with it. The refrain of “Won’t you come away with me” is essentially an invitation to come away from contrasting realities of life, to the undying beauty of the past.