The Ballad Of The Sin Eater

T.E. Lawrence was better known as Lawrence of Arabia...the British guy who was down there during the Arab revolts, and through WWI, etc.

Beau Geste (it's misspelled in the lyrics) was a book/ movie about the French Foreign Legion.

So basically, it's about continental interlopers in the Arab world, I guess.

Ted Leo's sharp--or at least, well-versed culturally, I s'pose...