Cyanide is commonly used in suicide pills, taken to stop you from being tortured after being captured. Both sides used this during WWII. The Allies gave their spies cyanide stored in a false tooth, usually a molar. Just swallowing it wouldn’t kill, but biting through the protective layer would lead to death within minutes.

El-P confesses to a priest that he loves a nun, who is supposed to dedicate her life to God. The priest tells him this, but he fires back with an age-old line about unrequited love—if you really love them, you’ll respect their choices, and be happy that they’ve found love. In doing so, El-P compares God to a clingy ex-boyfriend and suggests that his love isn’t genuine.

Lots of Corn Exchanges have been turned into event spaces. Ipswich is nearest to Mildenhall, but Cambridge is a more important touring stop and so the most likely candidate.

James Mercer’s father was in the USAF, so his family moved around a lot; the previous track, “Fantasy Island”, is concerned with the intense anxiety that moving from Germany to Alberqueque caused 12-year-old James.

Mildenhall is a Royal Air Force base in Suffolk. From 1934 to 2015, it was mostly used by the USAF, primarily for refuelling, but also European recon, special operations, and administration. The USAF relocated its functions to Germany in 2015, and it was sold off by the RAF.

Here, the sky is personified as being envious of Jesca’s lover, who is enjoying their relationship. The sky can’t really feel envy, but their love is so enviable that it’s somehow remarkable that nature doesn’t want a piece of it.

Jesca uses an extended metaphor, which continues throughout the song, to compare her relationship with lovers to a rider on a winged horse. Their relationship is beautifully thrilling, but brings a desire for risk-taking out of her.

This story is a metaphor for Hoop’s own struggle with belief. Hoop was raised Mormon, but lost her faith aged 16.

The crown of thorns Jesus wore as he was crucified was supposed to mock his claim to be “King of the Jews”, but ironically has come to be a symbol of that very divinity. Just as Hoop left the church, flawless Jesus has lost faith in himself and now refuses to return to Earth and enact the prophesied second coming.

Thanks to books, documentaries, and the internet, it’s very easy to find out about even the most elusive animals. On the other hand, robots are still new, with exciting developments all the time.

Animals are also much less predictable than machines. If you value order and monotony, then you should prefer machines to living things.

The US started using drones to kill enemy combatants in Iraq in 2003. They’ve since expanded their use to go after terrorists in areas where the US is not fighting wars.

This has led to the death of hundreds of innocent civilians, and contributed to paranoia about the ease with which extra-judicial executions can be carried out, and fears of a machine uprising.

In Jesca’s dystopian future, drone operators have the same problems with their machines as the Carol Beers of the world have with their computers. If the drone says you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist and must die.