"I was reading about a young American in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua who was shot by the Contras." "Fragile" by Sting
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"I was reading about a young American in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua who was shot by the Contras." "Fragile" by Sting
Stings says "I was reading about a young American in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua who was shot by the Contras."
Stings says "I was reading about a young American in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua who was shot by the Contras."
"I was reading about a young American in the Peace Corps in Nicaragua who was shot by the Contras. I felt very sad. This guy had gone to Nicaragua to try to help, and ended up being mistaken, deliberately or otherwise, for a Marxist guerrilla. I think there was a lot of that kind of mistake being made. This idea of fragility was a very important one for me. It's very easy to kill people. It's almost a casual thing. The song's taken on many meanings since then, though. People think its an ecological song, because of my other interests. I suppose they think of the fragile eco-system and think, Sting must be singing about that. But I suppose it's the mark of a good song that it can have many different shades of meaning, so I'm not arguing. I've never written a tree-hugging song in all my years of tree-hugging."
Independent On Sunday, 11/94
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