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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.

Song Lyrics:

Empty smiles through the dimness looking through you to the door
trapped inside the misery through the bottle to the floor
no knights in shining armour would dare to venture here
while outside seems to far to chance, cold comfort is so near

Hour after hour, time drags in endless waves
the souls of those that are lost within, are those that no one saves
the dancer pirouettes stumbling clumsy on her feet
a means to a distant end to which she may one day defeat

Cause hell has so many disguises, and here is one that’s cold
to find the light it so much despises in desperation she sold her soul
dragged down by her own despair she believes in all she’s told
for those that pass and linger here, will remain trapped and remain forever old

A ghost here stands before me of a child dead long ago
cold to touch and soulless and the seed of which we sow
The Pink Flamingo fades to a colder shade of grey
there’s no black and white no wrong or right, just the veil of night on day

Cause hell has so many disguises, and here is one that’s cold
to find the light it so much despises in desperation she sold her soul
dragged down by her own despair she believes in all she’s told
for those that pass and linger here, will remain trapped and remain forever old

Unaware of those not watching, the white witch takes her toll
on the innocence of ignorance Pandora’s legacy is sold
her dreams of a ranch and picket fence in a far off land
while a desperate hope that a saviour among the lonely strangers stand
Cause hell has so many disguises, and here is one that’s cold
to find the light it so much despises in desperation she sold her soul
dragged down by her own despair she believes in all she’s told
for those that pass and linger here, will remain trapped and remain forever old

Dejected with no tricks or tips she leaves hungry alone
another night in the dimness with no escape from all she’s known
the tail of the longest snake leads to this rotten door
where happiness is an ancient myth no one believes in any more

Music & lyrics by FreemanHill
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