Maybe the guys watched Alien around the same time they used to play a lot of Tetris. And I have to say, it is probably the sexiest song about Alien that has ever been written.ġ0 - Tetris: I tried to find some connection between John Hurt and Tetris, and I can't really find one. I've never read it but I have seen the movie Notebook, and it sounds a lot like that.ġ0 - John Hurt: A pretty great actor. It's all about Bayley's time with his wife Iris before she lost her memories to Alzheimer's. You should check out the titles to some of his other books.ĩ - What's going on with all these voices and why do some of them sound familiar: Great question! That's the Alt-J's Joe Newman trading off words with Conor Oberst, Lianne La Havas and Marika Hackman.ĩ - Iris: and the lyrics that follow are taken from the book, Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, by John Bayley. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover - which is a pretty solid book, and Lawrence was a pretty lewd dude. It's a quote from the poem L'espoir en Dieu (Hope in God) from Alfred de Musset. I think they are buds.Ĩ - "I'll hum the song the soldiers sing/as they march outside our window": I'm probably reading too much into this, but I think it might be a reference that we're back in Nara and those are the soldiers flattening the land.Ĩ - "une immense Esperance a traversé la terre/ une immense Esperance a traversé ma peur": It means "A great hope has crossed the earth/ a great hope has crossed my fear". She also has a writing credit for the track. They are nervously in love.Ĩ - chain mail: let's go with the medieval armor that soldiers wore, and not the stuff your mom and people you don't like send to your inbox.Ĩ - "I'm a female rebel": Who's that cool chick they're sampling? Dude, it's Miley Cyrus from the song "4x4". Email me and we can discuss it further.Ĩ - "Butterflies and needles": Basically saying I've got butterflies in my stomach and I'm on pins and needles. Where the Greek philosopher says that most people are forever in the dark and think the shadows are real life. Probably not a gunfight.ĥ - Colt: A gun people used in the Wild West.ĥ - N-E-O, O-M-G, Gee whiz: Kid slang for whoa.ħ - Rule Britannia: It's a British patriotic song that comes from the poem "Rule, Britannia!"ħ - "Bright ideas hide in caves": I'm a dork and think this is probably a reference to Plato's Allegory of the Cave. A way of wittifying "I'm hot like the sun".ĥ - Left Hand Free: This whole song is either about two people in a gunfight or sex. But I think this is just a play on words. Or to be cute.ĥ - "like the prodigal son": Referencing a parable from Luke 15 all about God's forgiveness. The Borrowers is a book by Mary Norton, and is also about tiny people.Ĥ - "Lou, Lou, let the cover girls sing!": Pretty sure this is a shout out to Lou Reed's song "Walk on the Wild Side" and the line, "and the colored girls go".Ĥ - "like a cat rolls around": Apparently cats roll on the ground when they want to mate. Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl about little people who live in a tree. And there have been protests in Russia due to its anti-GLBTQ policies.ģ - "deer in Nara": Deer are highly regarded and respected in Nara.Ĥ - crisp packet: that's just British for a chip bag, yo.Ĥ - Minpin and Borrower: These are both allusions to books about little people. According to some people, he's there to represent Jesus.ģ - Bovay: Seems like a reference to Alvan Earle Bovay, one of the founders of the Republican Party.ģ - Alabama: A couple people seem to think Alabama gets a nod because it is one of the most conservative states and it passed a law banning gay rights in 2005.ģ - "unpin your butterflies, Russian": Butterflies are a transgender symbol. He's the talking lion who's the King of Narnia. Also, it's the name of an awesome photo by Yves Klein, where a well dressed man looks like he's about to pancake himself onto the sidewalk.ģ - Aslan: The main character in the Chronicles of Narnia. But also, that's the year where we coined "Arab Spring", so it might have something to do with war, too.ģ - "saut dans le vide": literally, "jump into the void". There's also this story that its name means "flatten" because some soldiers were forced to trample the hills and flatten the land.ģ - "Blue is the warmest color": Are this guys talking about that movie? Probably.ģ - "Petrol blues": A Rolling Stones song that's a conversation to the president saying, "Dude, things are bad if it cost this much to fill up my tank". So, now you know Alt-J digs some Wu-Tang.Ģ/3 - Nara: Ancient City in Japan that contains eight temples, shrines and ruins in its Primeval Forest. *The numbers below align with the track number of the song on the album that each reference appears in.ġ - Escher: trippy artist (staircases to nowhere)ġ - "I pop clips": reference to Wu-Tang Clan song "Protect Ya Neck", this whole song is pretty much a cover of the song.
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