"This Fire" (stylised as "This Fffire" in the single release) is the fifth single by Glasgow-based indie rock band Franz Ferdinand from their eponymous album. It received widespread airplay.

The album artwork to "This Fire" is based on El Lissitzky's art work Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.

It was Franz Ferdinand's standard set closer until July 2009 when it was replaced with "Lucid Dreams".

It was released as a download-only single, and reached #17 on the United States Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and #8 on the UK Download Chart. In Australia, the song was ranked #29 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.

The single was released in Australia as "This Fffire" [sic] with identical B-sides to the UK release of "Michael". The music video for the song was directed by Stylewar.

The music video echoes the style of 1920's-era Soviet art and propaganda (Constructivism etc.), including Cyrillic lettering, and shows the members of the band spreading a world-wide "hypnosis epidemic".

Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos.

It was featured on the in-game soundtrack to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game Burnout 3: Takedown. The song has become part of the hockey culture in Calgary, Alberta, where it is played in every Calgary Flames home game.

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