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Thread started 09/05/16 8:33pm

donnyenglish

"Corner of my studio" "somewhere in the south pacific"

Lyrics from "Back 2 the Lotus" are interesting. Did Prince visit the south pacific? Did he have a studio there? What is in the corner of that studio? On a side note, it is interesting that Prince's face in the cover of the album has 7 sides.
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Reply #1 posted 09/05/16 9:14pm

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Well, not there, but he did have a home in Turks and Caicos.

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Reply #2 posted 09/06/16 2:50am

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yeah, the lyrics to "back 2 the lotus" are interesting. i've never been able to make them all out.
not very well, anyway.

great track. that last minute or two is just phenomenal. i love love LOVE that.

no idea what the "from a lotusflower, somewhere in the south pacific, corner of my studio" is
all about.

it was a relief though, when this was released, to finally know what that bit at the very start of
"3121" was. 'from a lotus flower....'

cool

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Reply #3 posted 09/06/16 4:18am

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"the airways are corrupted..." is another line i can make out.

3121... Don't U Wanna Come?
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Reply #4 posted 09/06/16 4:28am

donnyenglish

He is trying to tell us the location of something. I think those that know his properties and possessions should investigate. Maybe it is not literally in the south pacific. Everything Prince does has a meaning.
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Reply #5 posted 09/06/16 8:18am

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donnyenglish said:

He is trying to tell us the location of something. I think those that know his properties and possessions should investigate. Maybe it is not literally in the south pacific. Everything Prince does has a meaning.


LOL No it doesn't.

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Reply #6 posted 09/06/16 11:32am

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TrivialPursuit said:

donnyenglish said:

He is trying to tell us the location of something. I think those that know his properties and possessions should investigate. Maybe it is not literally in the south pacific. Everything Prince does has a meaning.


LOL No it doesn't.


I know, right?

Sometimes, there was no meaning. He spent a helluva lot of time just effing with people.

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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Reply #7 posted 09/06/16 12:00pm

kapo74

Yeah... But what if all his lyrics are a treasure hunt?

What I always found remarkable is that he started his carreer at WB with 'For You' and ended it with 'Had you'. Don't even think of that being an coincidence...
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Reply #8 posted 09/06/16 12:03pm

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I've been thinking about this lyric a lot. It's absurd to think it could be a clue to where his will might be but it's a thought-provoker anyway.

Perhaps the location of his will is mentioned somewhere in his music. Again, highly unlikely but that would be a very Prince thing to do.

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Reply #9 posted 09/06/16 12:17pm

jayseajay

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TrivialPursuit said:


LOL No it doesn't.


I know, right?

Sometimes, there was no meaning. He spent a helluva lot of time just effing with people.

So much time. It's like when he passed and everyone was all 'y'know Prince was really funny.' doh! wink

Not like I love my guitar....
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Reply #10 posted 09/06/16 12:20pm

Genesia

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jayseajay said:

Genesia said:


I know, right?

Sometimes, there was no meaning. He spent a helluva lot of time just effing with people.

So much time. It's like when he passed and everyone was all 'y'know Prince was really funny.' doh! wink


And he did it because he could. lol

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Reply #11 posted 09/06/16 12:25pm

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kapo74 said:

Yeah... But what if all his lyrics are a treasure hunt? What I always found remarkable is that he started his carreer at WB with 'For You' and ended it with 'Had you'. Don't even think of that being an coincidence...

He knew it was his last WB album. There is nothing even remotely profound or clever about naming the last song on a WB record Had You when his first song on a WB album was For You. That's kind of high school-level, to be honest. Him doing that doesn't mean every lyric was a treasure hunt. I don't think he had the attention span or patience to deal with that, anyway.

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Reply #12 posted 09/06/16 12:32pm

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steakfinger said:

kapo74 said:

Yeah... But what if all his lyrics are a treasure hunt? What I always found remarkable is that he started his carreer at WB with 'For You' and ended it with 'Had you'. Don't even think of that being an coincidence...

He knew it was his last WB album. There is nothing even remotely profound or clever about naming the last song on a WB record Had You when his first song on a WB album was For You. That's kind of high school-level, to be honest. Him doing that doesn't mean every lyric was a treasure hunt. I don't think he had the attention span or patience to deal with that, anyway.


Or the time! When you think about how quickly he wrote and recorded some of those things - there's just no way everything was infused with "special meaning."

It probably tickled him to no end to watch others put it there, though.

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Reply #13 posted 09/06/16 1:30pm

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Genesia said:

TrivialPursuit said:


LOL No it doesn't.


I know, right?

Sometimes, there was no meaning. He spent a helluva lot of time just effing with people.


Agreed. Prince's music was a straight-forward as it was cryptic, but more often than not it was the former. I think of "Another Lonely Christmas" and people thinking that was a real story, because of the details. It was 100% fiction, and it just shows how creative the guy was with lyrics. Nothing was ever that cryptic in his music. He didn't bury numerology or hidden messages in his music. And if he did, for who to find? A random fan to seek out a buried treasure years later?


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Reply #14 posted 09/06/16 1:37pm

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kapo74 said:

Yeah... But what if all his lyrics are a treasure hunt? What I always found remarkable is that he started his carreer at WB with 'For You' and ended it with 'Had you'. Don't even think of that being an coincidence...


How is that remarkable, per se? Both were random tracks he recorded. C&D was supposed to be for private use only (whatever that means). It's easy to put a track at the end of your last record that has a "fuck you" attitude on it, when you're leaving your record company. If you're that petty.

It wasn't some grand scheme that his first song was "For You" (we know there were other songs written & recorded before that anyway), and he thought, in 1977 "whenever this contract is over, I'll have changed my name, raise a few stinks along the way, and end it all with a song call 'had u'. when my lucrative contract that makes me a gazillionaire expires." wacky

The only purposeful part of "had u" was that it could prove to be a great story for the press. Even Prince said "Oh, it was fate". Of course it was, honey. comfort

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IstenSzek

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TrivialPursuit said:

kapo74 said:

Yeah... But what if all his lyrics are a treasure hunt? What I always found remarkable is that he started his carreer at WB with 'For You' and ended it with 'Had you'. Don't even think of that being an coincidence...


How is that remarkable, per se? Both were random tracks he recorded. C&D was supposed to be for private use only (whatever that means). It's easy to put a track at the end of your last record that has a "fuck you" attitude on it, when you're leaving your record company. If you're that petty.

It wasn't some grand scheme that his first song was "For You" (we know there were other songs written & recorded before that anyway), and he thought, in 1977 "whenever this contract is over, I'll have changed my name, raise a few stinks along the way, and end it all with a song call 'had u'. when my lucrative contract that makes me a gazillionaire expires." wacky

The only purposeful part of "had u" was that it could prove to be a great story for the press. Even Prince said "Oh, it was fate". Of course it was, honey. comfort


eek

they said they thought it wasn't a coincidence that the first track was "for you" and the last track
ended up being "had u".

they didn't take a shit in your bed trivial lol

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Reply #16 posted 09/06/16 5:14pm

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IstenSzek said:

they didn't take a shit in your bed trivial lol


Hey, I was only addressing the idea, not attacking the person. lol

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Reply #17 posted 09/06/16 5:18pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

IstenSzek said:

they didn't take a shit in your bed trivial lol


Hey, I was only addressing the idea, not attacking the person. lol


i read it back and you're right. so in fact it was me overreacting. such irony falloff

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Reply #18 posted 09/06/16 6:30pm

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IstenSzek said:

TrivialPursuit said:


Hey, I was only addressing the idea, not attacking the person. lol


i read it back and you're right. so in fact it was me overreacting. such irony falloff


I never said that either. I thought we were all just having a conversation. Maybe I was wrong. Is this something else?

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Reply #19 posted 09/06/16 8:09pm

donnyenglish

I am in the group of people that finds significance in everything that Prince has ever done. Perhaps I read too much into things. But, when he says "somewhere in the south pacific, in the corner of my studio" he is trying to tell us something. He is giving us some type of clue. I think this topic merits more analysis.
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Reply #20 posted 09/06/16 10:27pm

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donnyenglish said:

Perhaps I read too much into things.


fin.

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Reply #21 posted 09/07/16 3:04am

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TrivialPursuit said:

IstenSzek said:


i read it back and you're right. so in fact it was me overreacting. such irony falloff


I never said that either. I thought we were all just having a conversation. Maybe I was wrong. Is this something else?


i was just laughing at myself biggrin

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Reply #22 posted 09/07/16 6:52am

emby

Genesia said:
TrivialPursuit said: LOL No it doesn't.

I know, right?
Sometimes, there was no meaning. He spent a helluva lot of time just effing with people.

Yes! That's a huge thing I keep realizing, over and over. I've been so immersed in his music, and videos, and just general reading up on whatever I can find since April. He LOVED fucking with people! His humor was so sharp and I think he really only cared if he was amusing himself sometimes. He had a really good time messing with folks. And he was hilarious. I love that so much.

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Reply #23 posted 09/07/16 7:00am

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TrivialPursuit said:

Well, not there, but he did have a home in Turks and Caicos.

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Americans are not so good at geography. Check the youtube for proof.

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Reply #24 posted 09/07/16 8:00am

IstenSzek

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nevermind

[Edited 9/7/16 8:08am]

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