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Prince's fixation on bathing his sex partners before they engage, is a consistent theme in his songs movies and videos.

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I think that it is Prince's version of baptizing them.

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Help me make a list of his references to bathing.

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The one that sticks out in my head the most is in the movie Purple Rain when he tells Appolonia to 'Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minetonka'

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FragileUndertow said:

Girl? : If i could be anything id the water in your Bath

Extralovable : if you ever want to shower, call me up its free

Come : as long as you wash between your soul and through your hair, ill do my duty thete


Prince obviously like em clean

I may have lyrics wrong

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When 2 R in Love -- Lovesexy

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The Ballad of Dorothy Parker :-

Well, I ordered, "Yeah, let me get a fruit cocktail, I ain't to hungry"
Dorothy laughed
She said "Sounds like a real man to me"
"You're kinda cute, you want to take a bath?
(Do you want to, do you want to, bath)

FragileUndertow said:

Cloud : Eery time you catch her singin' in the shower, U should go and get a flower. Don't matter what the hour, Just rub it on her back, Purple Rain : I only want to see you bathing in the purp!e rain. Does that count? [Edited 9/5/16 18:17pm]

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It absolutely counts.

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Good catch.

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If I was your Girlfrend:

" Would you let me see you naked then?
Would you let me give you a bath?
Would you let me tickle you so hard you'd laugh and laugh"

petalthecat said:

Shower, my flower - mellow yellow

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Shower, my flower?

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Mellow -- The Rainbow Children

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Good catch.

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Thanks.

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[Edited 9/5/16 20:35pm]

Not a strict lyric, but in the middle of the Montreux 2009 performance of All the Critics he also says... 'Am I funky? Are you funky? So let's take a bath together.'....

I'd say it's not just a sexual thing about bathing his lovers (which it is also...and I think this is also a mother (mother-wound) thing...and also a projection...it's him that wants to be bathed, and so he does it to other people...there was something somewhere about someone watching his hairdresser washing his hair, and how much he obviously enjoyed it), but its also bathing as an experience of merging/intimacy....

When 2 R in Love...

'Come bathe with me
Let's drown each other in each others emotions
Bathe with me
Let's cover each other with perfume and lotion
Bathe with me
Let me touch your body 'til your river's an ocean'

And also women and sex as rivers/rain/oceans...

When Eye Lay My Hands 'Nobody knows/like I know/Where the deepest part of your river flows'

There is also the bath at the beginning of the video of When Doves Cry, and the bath on stage during the PR tour...

Come

Long as U wash between your soul and through your hair

If I Had a Harem

I'd have one 2 wash your body, one 2 wash your hair One 2 wash U here and another one 2 wash U there

[Edited 9/6/16 1:55am]

Sexy MF

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Tony M

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Guard your folks and get your daughter
The sexy motherfucker's so fine I could drink her bathwater

When Doves Cry musicvideo:



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Holy River -- Emancipation

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