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A few years ago we attended a software conference in New Orleans, the nearest bar to his hotel was a seedy strip joint called The Pink Flamingo.

Drugs were openly sold over the bar here 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. This kept them in this place, yet they still held onto their dreams of one day escaping this lifestyle and living free from this implicit oppression.

This song is about the exploitation of women such as these, and in a way it is a tribute to them.

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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