Firestarter

I, I still remember
how you looked that afternoon.
There was only you.

You said, "it was just like a full moon".
Blood beats faster in our veins
We left our trousers by the canal
And our fingers, they almost touched

You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?

And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Now every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie

I’ve gone wherever you wanted

I still remember…

And on that teacher’s training day
We wrote our names on every train
Laughed at the people off to work
So monochrome and so lukewarm

And I can see our days are becoming nights
I could feel your heartbeat across the grass
We should have run
I would go with you anywhere
I should have kissed you by the water

You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?

And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Now every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie

I would let you if you asked me

I still remember…

Kele Okereke talked about the song at some length in his January 2007 The Observer interview, responding to questions as to whether the song had an autobiographical nature:

"Not really … I guess, partially. [Can we call it a gay love story?] Yeah, but is it a love story? It’s one person longing for somebody they can’t really have. But it’s not consummated. It’s not a mutual thing. …
This is probably a contentious issue, but I swear that I could always see [male homosexual attraction] in people, in the way that guys would need to be touching other guys. You could see there was something they couldn’t say aloud. And I saw it when I was at school. And I guess I Still Remember is an attempt at trying to confront that..I know from my own experiences a lot of heterosexual boys had feelings or experiences when they were younger. And that’s not really ever spoken about, that un-spoken desire. …
Not two gay boys … but the idea of two straight boys having an attraction, or there being an attraction that’s unspeakable - that was the idea of that song." (Taken from Wikipedia-I Still Remember, Bloc Party)

Well, even if this song has subliminal messages and thoughts on homosexuality, I still like it. Who cares? I read in an article that artist Ping Medina would want to make This  Modern Love (from Silent Alarm) as a soundtrack of his life. So what if the writer was queer? It only proves how one song could change a person’s view of the world, that, in the midst of social transitions and developments that have been, people are still immature and unready to face issues such as this one. So God bless Bloc Party, especially Kele Okereke

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