"Explain My Heart," one of the album's catchiest songs, is also one of its darkest, written while the artist was visiting Palestine and Israel and witnessing "[k]ids kicking tear gas canisters as soccer balls" and "six-year-olds showing [him] bruises from rubber bullets".
A protester kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with riot police during a May Day rally near Taksim Square in Istanbul on May 1 , 2015
Even one kick can tear a hamstring, and then you'd be out for weeks.
His verse account of a badger-hunt can still appal, down to its bloody finale when "kicked and torn and beaten out he lies/ And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies".
The mood was ugly and young men in the crowd attacked a Serbian photographer and a reporter and cameraman, punching and kicking them, tearing away their equipment and smashing it on the ground.
Triggered by seemingly random, utterly innocuous events, tantrums are designed to explode without warning and bombard its target--that would be you--with screams, kicks, tears, slobber and, if you're crazy enough to try to stop it, elbows to the eye and knees to the groin.
"I just wanted to kick it (the tear gas) away," he said.
Mr. Rodriguez says he saw several people kick the girl and tear her clothes during the Oct. 24 attack.
We wait for the food trucks to come and then we form a straight line and then we wait a few minutes for the line to scatter, then we wait for the fight to begin, and then we fight and struggle and bite and kick and curse and tear and grab and run".
One of the most memorable images of the current Israeli-Palestinian confrontations shows a young Palestinian lawyer in dark shades, a suit and formal legal robe as he kicks away an Israeli tear gas canister, his legs flying high above billowing white gas.
