Thom unfurls much like a lotus flower would, he is in a very real sense becoming a blossoming one as the song goes along. And notice the use of color. Strictly black and white for a reason? Definitely.

Refers to the Indian(s) (mainly Telugu people) from Southern India who emigrated to colonial Burma (Now Myanmar) across the Bay of Bengal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in search of livelihood.

“A Coringhee coolie” refers to such an Indian immigrant working in colonial Burma as an unskilled laborer in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The elephant attacked the coolie in “musth” — a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones – testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times

Elephant meat reportedly tastes “stringy/gamey” like elk or buffalo — tasty stuff, lots of protein

1 grown elephant can feed 250 people

Shoots some big fucking bullets

Check out brilliant video for Beirut’s song Elephant Gun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSz_PAfgNc

Medical students often report haunting dreams of dissected cadavers

Dravidian is a language family mainly spoken in Southern India — this is a dark-skinned, lower caste, worker Indian whom Orwell has found dead

La Roux says the room where she and her ex Ben would often write her songs was “all creamy pink, not even beige” (the ‘colorless color’)

play on the line from Drake’s “Free Spirit”