I was only 16 but I guess that's no excuse
My sister was 32, lovely and loose
She don't wear no underwear
She said it only gets in her hair
And it's got a funny way of stoppin' the juice

My sister never made love 2 anyone else but me
She's the reason 4 my, uh, sexuality
She showed me where it's supposed 2 go
A blowjob doesn't mean blow
Incest is everything it's said 2 be

Oh sister - don't put me on the street again
Oh sister - I just wanna be your friend

I was only 16 and only half a man
My sister didn't give a goddamn
She only wanted 2 turn me out
She'd take a whip 2 me until I shout
Oh motherfucker, she's a motherfucker, can't U understand?

Oh sister - don't put me on the street again
Oh sister - I just wanna be your friend

I know what U want me 2 do
Put me on the street and make me blue

Oh sister!
Oh sister!
Oh!



Now I've heard this song for years and have never really understood if it's just a silly song, or a page from his diary. Anyone got any info on Sharon? Let me put this issue to rest, please.

no way. prince would've been squashed.

fact that he's alive today proves the song was a fictional tale.

Nope, it isnt fictional, it is about having sex with his halvesister when he was visiting New York to get a record deal.....

Riverpoet31 said:

No wonder it took so many years to cleanse his soul. That's not right.

Yes, it's a song.

Do you also expect "Strays Of The World", "NPG Bum Rush The Ship" and "New World" be about real life experiences too?

8up said:

what's wrong with that?

i sleep with my half-sister all the time.

"my sister didn't give a God damn!"

I always think the delivery of that line, the tone of Prince's voice, indicates to us the comedy in the song.

TheFrog said:

you slut! I thought I was your only partner

I've just read a book about Prince writen in the eighties and somehow the writer either quotes or repeats it in his words that the songs on that album were biographical. Couldn't believe my eyes when I read that.

MetroArea said:

It never occured to me, but with the rockabilly feel to this song, is it just poking fun at the inbred hillbilly stereotype?

well, he was about 16 when this happened, his halvesister in his early thirties... Prince was a shy guy back then, i think his halvesister trapped him in, and for him the song was a way to deal with the complexity of that experience(s), i think

MetroArea said:

Yeah, before I got Dirty Mind a few weeks ago, I was a little disgusted at Sister's lyrics. Now I've come to regard Sister as a pretty funny track. "Ohmuthafuckajustamuthafucka!" This is probably the same sister who wanted to spill her guts about him on some interview in 1990.
[Edited 5/4/05 21:56pm]

8up said:

I am reading "Prince: The First Decade (Dance,Music, Sex, Romance).....and it indicates that Sister has nothing to do with him and his half sister.....the song was intended as an expression of the pain and confusion an incest victim, or anyone who has been manipulated by a person in a position of trust, must go thru.....
[Edited 5/5/05 14:18pm]

noonblueapples said:

It's punk, actually. Should be at least, but hey if it sounds rockabilly to you... it must be tellin' about something.

MarthaRico said:

Hotlegs said:

Not really. It's still essentially a shock-piece, first and foremost. Regardless of what kind of more subtle meanings young Prince might have written into the lyrics. Nilsen's view is his own, but the song is far too tongue-in-cheek in overall to be just a masked vehicle for addressing "the pain of an incest victim". It's still a dirty fantasy nevertheless.

I think it's just Prince pissing his sister off -- Sharon. Not that it's true or anything. Kinda like the way "Darling Nikki" was used to mess with Apollonia in Purple Rain. She knew it was about her; though not true.

Nilsen says... "the song was intended as an expression of the pain and confusion an incest victim, or anyone who has been manipulated by a person in a position of trust..."

Um, Prince says he was 16 at the time. If this is true, then who is using who?! We're not talking about a little boy here!
[Edited 5/6/05 10:30am]

I think Nilsen's interpretation was a bit silly too.

Snap said:

age doesnt say a thing, there are people who are 50 and are still scared to live.....

Assuming that Prince is, by nature, very shy, and assuming that 16 year old adolesecents are wrestling with there hormones and the confusion of changing so dramatically (get a grip, most 16 year olds are still halve child / halve adult) i think Prince is trying to give this experience(s) a place in his life...

We constantly grow on a mentally level, and i sense that Prince at age 22 - 23 (the time this song was released) definitely wasnt an adult, an still searching for wholeness....

So err if he was 16 when he slept with his sister how old was he when he lost his virginity to a girl with a rasberry beret which he took away from the place he worked?

You guys can NOT belive this is a real life experience right? I mean Prince is a naughty boy but he is not THIS naughty!!! It is purly for shcck value.

Riverpoet31 said:

How do you know this to be absolutely true? Did you read this in a "press" or "media" report? Do you know Prince, yourself, to know this song is a factual account?

In other words: "The real matter is: have you ever talked to this guy? are you a close friend of him? dont you mix up his lyrical output with what is actually happening in his real life?" - riverpoet, on another thread















(i'm sorry. I just had to say this, in light of the chastising and superior tone of riverpoet's posts on another thread regarding believing gossip and rumor about Prince's past/reputation/history. )
[Edited 5/10/05 14:47pm]

I should have added a after that so that i could have maybe included some sarcasm and shown that i didnt really believe this story.

Yeah

Really though i cant believe i havent come across this yet, how old was he when he lost his virginity?

Of course it's not true, Prince woulds never have sex with a black women,right?

What about NONa Gaye??

Soulchild82 said:

You know I was just kidding right? I know or at least suspect P likes women of all colors and ethnicities. Some people believe that couldn't be further than the truth!