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Thread started 02/18/06 4:12pm

skipper

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Ana stesia lyrics

Does anyone here know anything about the line 'Gregory looks just like a ghost' (hope I got that right),what or who is he referring to?
Time is a trick....
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Reply #1 posted 02/18/06 4:19pm

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It's been speculated before that it's a reference to Greg Brooks (one of his bodyguards/dancers) who was with Prince the night of the infamous E trip. I guess unless Prince himself explains it, then we'll never really know...
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Reply #2 posted 02/18/06 4:53pm

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Thanks for that bit of info toejam,that sounds feasible. Every time I hear it though I can't help thinking of the baby that Prince and Mayte lost because I read that he was named as Boy Gregory on the death certificate but I know that Ana stesia was written long before that happened so it's just a coincidence.
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Reply #3 posted 02/18/06 8:58pm

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skipper said:

Thanks for that bit of info toejam,that sounds feasible. Every time I hear it though I can't help thinking of the baby that Prince and Mayte lost because I read that he was named as Boy Gregory on the death certificate but I know that Ana stesia was written long before that happened so it's just a coincidence.


this is one of my favorite songs.. and ive wondered about this line too. i never made the baby gregory connection... creepy....
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Reply #4 posted 02/18/06 9:41pm

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Limited knowledge, I admit, but; anna stesia is Greek for resurrection.

Lovesexy it seems, appears to Prince to be the rebirth of his "true" self and the dispelling of his devils.

oooooh, spooky.

Ok, I love Lovesexy. My favourite of all his albums. It's just.... I find it so hard to believe he's so flippant and inconsequential so as to have had a "dark night of the soul" or whatever and be inspired by a insipid poet telling him he'd be better off if he smiled, etc... actually I LOVE all that... I'm such a hopeless romantic.

That stuff about the Greek... that's all true.
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