Electric Six - Pink Flamingos Lyrics

"You got to climb the statue of the demon to get closer to god."

I was told Pink Flamingos were used as a symbol back in the day for Swingers. People placed them in their yard as code. Looking into it more I did find reference to the same thing. Makes the song make more sense. I'm not saying anyone is gay.. or if anyone was that it would matter. Or that anyone who owns a pink flamingo is a perve lol.. just that this is a very clever song with symbology I didn't understand until recently :)

J Hop - ssssssymbolism. The word you're looking for is symbolism

best song

u wud like it

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Your pee-pee is pure garbage.

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"she's working for president clinton the way she used to work for me" is referencing Monica Lewinski (the women caught giving clinton a blowjob)

i pissed myself laughing :'D

i also have a suitcase full of fire. bought it on eBay for 20 bucks along with my Lincoln top hat..

Ronny Mund

whats your problem

Oliver McIntosh T.O.P.L.E.S.S! You'll do it when you get here.

Wasn't Pink Flamingos a John Waters film?

YES! For fucks sake that took WAAAY to long for someone to coment on.

I remember the scene of the woman eating dogshit and then the prolapsed rectum. I was drunk as shit when I watched it. I think...sometimes, late at night, that I could have taken the budget of that movie and bought a moderate amount of drugs. Would anybody really miss it?

Divine ❤️

@AK49Gunner I will be expecting u then...

Johnny Cash? Naw more like Johnny Cash meets Clutch but not even that since Electric Six is a genre all to themselves

E6 Played this song at the concert on thursday ^_^

@ezus4giveSdaLostDont I got caps...But if it ain't Quantum you can stick it.}{D

"I hear she's working for President Clinton the way she used to work for me."

I want to make sweet love to this song.

@dedlord I hope you don't mean herpes like this song does haha.

@koviack fallout reference

nuka cola anyone? got caps?

I have no front yard since I live in a gated community. :(

@YuCme93 oh please brother, i know that theres alot of shait music today, but not all is crap. I hate it when people say "crap nowdays" i like alot of that "crap" youre talkin about. Fleet foxes, raphael saadiq, mayer hawthorne, If you bother too search and look in the crap suddenly you find some flowers, and why not?
The crap is the soil wich the flowers bloom from...........

@ArknineYT Thank you so much! i appreciate your words
p.s Electric Six Forever!!!

10 ppls pink flamingos flew away

@kreeaytor Man i don't think they are Gays BUT even if theya re Gays
WHO CARES!??? MUSIC ARE FUCKIN COOL!!!

8 people never been to a gaybar

Lol

@SASORI5140 they are awesome because they are gay.

@Jbrown953 Cash is bland and generic, most of his songs sound the same, and he's VERY monotone. Electric Six are awesome.

And don't start going off about how I don't know much about music, it's my passion.

@MegaBughunter How the fuck do you BOTH manage to butcher the English language so bad?

@ItsDorp You're just jealous u didn't think of it first. :P

@SASORI5140 I didn't knew they were gay, but that esplains "Gay Bar". I fucking love that band since I listened to High Voltage. No matter if they are gay.

You've got climb the statue of the demon...
to get closer to God!

Probably my favourite Electric Six song. If ever any one of their songs encapsulated the Electric Six experience, this one was it.

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@zanderJDC

I think I better one would be: "7 people choked to death on their own poor taste and clicked dislike." lol

DON'T thumb up my comment, if you do I will hunt you down and kill you.

7 people dont have pink flmingos

awsome just awsome gotto love this band

this song is amazing

7 people will be outlived by Pink Flamingoes

sooooo true, i was listening to buckethead earlier and a coed from the local pansy university rushed into my house and demanded i discuss sexual orientation.

And they Neveeeerrrrr Flyyyyyy Awaaaaaayyyyyyy! LOL

@b0gster Hey, I wasn't knocking it; I just think maybe they have created a new genre with this one?
I love all the songs on switzerland, I would love to know the idea behind this?

@MYxLOVExOFxBEER It's music, ok? Good music.

@Deifendorf pepridge farm remembers

F-F-F-F-F-FAIL COMMENTS! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!!!

Is this 'Country Rock'?
Or maybe Country Metal, Nasty Country Etc?

am now downloading entire discography. AWWW YEEE.

@shaunsowray14
I could swear it was "YOU" at the beginning and not "GIRL." Damn Rock Band...

@TheUzumakiAngel LOOOOOOOL

@Deifendorf agreed haha lets all just listen to Electric Six and enjoy it >:D

gay bar, gay bar xD

oh mah god, I hope they play this and Jimmy Carter on Sunday

this song is about mysogyny

amongst all the religious banter this is the best and most true comment

As a faithful christian I think you all shouldn't be that serious. Nice song.

Oh i'd agree Fungus about the Demon line at least but i have to imagine it's anti religious because "there is a god outside demanding my resignation and a policeman about to pull his gun.. i lost the battle but i think the war has just begun" I mean that could be interpreted as he's trying to be god and gods not cool with it i just feel as though he's be resentful towards religion by saying that as well as the only way to get close to god. is by doing wicked.. seems anti religious to me at least

I don't think it's anti religious at all.

But uh, there is definitely a strong religious element to the theme.

mostly the statue line, is any acts God is claimed to have committed in any testament, if you're going to do that sort of thing, if you are going to be godlike, that's generally pretty evil. iconography and all that. Also, demons are generally giant monsters, and god is all the way up in heaven.......

ralph pls go

Gorn it's really hard to explain.. there are a lot of meanings in this song.. at the beginning "when the time comes to document what we've done here the transcriptions wont really be that hard" Means that we havn't accomplished much in this life and the things we have weren't so swell.. the deepest verse "you've got to climb the statue of the demon to get closer to go" is a religious reference to sometimes you've got to get your hands a lil dirty to do good.. and it's very anti religious.

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lol....I AM THE DANCE COMMANDER!!!!

Indeed, but.... Pink Flamingos.

what you mean?
my english is bad?
haha maybe because i am not american and not english
i am from russia and learn english by myself
anyway thank you for replied message

i love these guys

i not care they are gays or not because their music is awesome and super talented!

I always thought that the pink flamingos was that he was living in a trailer, probly in florida, with pink flamingos in his yard.

"woman-eating monster" and the the entire verse with the Bill Clinton joke are epic.

Seconded. That's the REASON we love Electric Six, too! It's all random jokes!

its scary when people start taking these songs seriously and dont realize they are jokes.

I agree.

No i can't. So tell me what's your sexual orientation?

Remember that time that you could enjoy music without getting into a debate about sexual orientation?

Yeah, let's get back to doing that.

It is possible that they are a mixture of gay/straight/bi, I think that Dick Valentine is straight, based on all the lines about fancying women and having sex with them, but these things are often more complicated than that, some folks who are straight have gay fantasies and vice versa, and some have had some sexual experiences with members of both sexes that they enjoyed while still considering themselves to be gay/straight instead of bi because they mostly like one sex/gender.

I'm pretty sure "Pink Flamingos" is a movie involving a drag queen, which still isn't quite homosexual, but it's a step in that direction.

Don't worry, you're not rude. Just stupid and homophobic.

Since when were flamingos homosexual?

which is why i love them

Satriani is good, but so is Electric Six.

Provide an argument rather than just an opinion and more people may be inclined to believe you.

BTW, are you a homophobe?

No, they just like to probe subjects that otherwise go under the carpet :P

Doh! just noticed they were 9 days ago in my town...

saw them live yesterday!

Love this band

Greetings from Sweden

Love this song

This song is hilarious!