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Riff: Tame Impala – “Elephant”

Dec 27, 2012

Well he feels like an elephant/Shaking his big grey trunk for the hell of it/He knows that you’re dreamin’ about being over him

from Elephant lyrics by Tame Impala

Parker once again fires a loaded gun at pretentiousness. He compares that egomaniacal attitude to an elephant swinging his trunk around carelessly, an obtrusive individual with no sensibilities. It’s the antithesis to style over substance.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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