Sierra Leone

about this song

In “Sierra Leone,” Frank talks to a (fictional) younger version of himself who fooled around and got a girl pregnant. He uses the extended metaphor of Sierra Leone’s “pink skies” to refer to his the girl’s vagina and womb, all the while discussing maturing in the face of impending parenthood. Whilst he’s an aloof and irresponsible “teenager” at the start of the track, he’s a seemingly responsible father figure by the close. Though the story is fictional

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