Genius Lyrics
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Kele (Ft. Olly Alexander) – Grounds for Resentment
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[Verse 1: Kele Okereke] / At the table we're polite / I make a joke but it falls flat / Silence falls where laughter daily used to flow / Your job is fine, your friends are cool
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Kele (Ft. Corinne Bailey Rae) – Versions of Us
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[Verse 1: Kele Okereke] / Fall back, fall back / You lost the right to come at me / Call time or call a truce / Will we make it through the year? / We’re doing all the things / We
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Kele – Streets Been Talkin'
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[Verse 1] / From the palace of Versailles / To the streets of Peckham Rye / You crave the dizziest of heights / But we're caught out at the lights / The streets been talkin' / By
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V V Brown (Ft. Kele) – Faith
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[Chorus: VV Brown] / I shake it off as I fall down to the ground / Belly-flop into a swimming pool of sound / ‘Cause when we’re gone there’ll be no-one else around / So you gotta
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Bloc Party – Hero
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“Hero” is a B-side to early Bloc Party single, “Two More Years”. Its lyrics speak about how the average person can be a “hero” to someone else.
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Bloc Party – Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
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Slightly different in song structure to the original, adding chorus repetitions and removing the outro, this remix credited to Phones is actually the alias of producer Paul Epworth
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Bloc Party – Blue Light
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“Blue Light” is the fifth track on Silent Alarm and is an overall quieter track than the others on the album, although it still relies heavily on its core drums/bass/electric
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Kele (Ft. Bobbie Gordon) – Down Boy (BACARDÍ® Beginnings)
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Producer Kele Okereke collaborates with the talented vocalist Bobbie Gordon to create their new dance track “Down Boy (BACARDÍ Beginnings)”. It was released as part of the third
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Kele – Yemaya
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“Yemaya” is the first single from Bloc Party frontman Kele’s third studio album, Fatherland. The song is one of his most stripped-back, consisting of just vocals, strings and an
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Bloc Party – The Answer
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Co-writer Liz Neumayr was part of a band called Ladyfuzz that were also signed to Transgressive Records. Neumayr was housemates with Kele Okereke for a period of time according to
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Bloc Party – Two More Years
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Single released between the albums Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City, and later included as a bonus track on a re-issued version of Silent Alarm. The song reached #7 on the UK
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Bloc Party – Luno
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Kele: “This songs about how people change in a bad way. It’s about memories you have of people and how life changes that.”
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Bloc Party – Storm and Stress
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B-side to Little Thoughts.
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Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
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[Verse 1] / It's so cold in this house / Open mouth swallowing us / The children sent home from school / Will not stop crying / And I know that you're busy, do I know that you care
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Bloc Party – This Is Not a Competition
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[Verse 1: Kele Okereke] / This is not a competition / You will see when I am gone / Can't you see that I am trying? / Love fifteen; fifteen all / [Verse 2: Kele Okereke] / I made a
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Bloc Party – So Here We Are
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According to Kele Okereke, “This song’s about the way people say they feel when they’re taking ecstacy. A song about that moment of purity and real clearness and the search to get
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Bloc Party – Staying Fat
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The duelling vocals throughout the verse and chorus in this are unique to a Bloc Party song.
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Bloc Party – Cain Said to Abel
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1: Kele Okereke] / Cain said to Abel / "Brother, I've been bad / Killed a fleet of angels with my bare hands" / Cain said to Abel / "Brother, I've
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Bloc Party – Biko
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The title of this song is not a reference to slain South African anti-apartheid leader Stephen Biko. Instead it is a term of endearment in Igbo, the Nigerian language that the
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Kele – A Day Of National Shame (Interlude)
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The third and last interlude from 2042 takes a more political tone, as Kele Okereke samples a speech in the House of Commons by David Lammy, Labour MP for London’s district of
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Bloc Party – The Marshals Are Dead
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The original version of this song, which spelled “Marshals” with two L’s, was self-produced by Bloc Party and was set to a slower tempo with more raw vocals. It was featured on the
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