| Pink Flamingo was written about a seedy strip joint in New Orleans of the same name. Drugs were openly sold over the bar and the dancers were all prostitutes touting for business. Most of the girls, once beautiful looked tired and much older than their age due to their drug addictions, which kept them tied to the place, but yet they still held onto their dreams of one day escaping this lifestyle and living free from a relentless implicit oppression. This song is about the exploitation of women such as these, and in a way it is a tribute to them. Of all the place I have visited in the world the Pink Flamingo bar is one of the saddest. |