Baby, U take a walk
Take a walk and leave me behind
Baby, U gonna walk, yeah
Gonna walk right out of your mind
U better have 2 feet
We got no reason, reason 2 lie
Baby, U take a walk
Think I'm gonna take a sexual suicide

Baby, if U only knew
All the love, want a love that's deep in my heart
Ooh baby, bein' here with U
Wouldn't be nothin' could tear us apart
Alright, uh, every night
Cool surrender, lost in your arms
U, U'll be surprised
Doin' it in the cuffs, sound your alarm
Baby, gonna take a walk
Think I'm gonna take a sexual suicide

No body like my body, baby
Ain't no ride like my ride
Super skin in my car, baby
If U're drivin' me, then maybe
Sexual suicide

Ain't it a shame
That U won't play the game
Got 2 much pride
U, U make your bed
But U got 2 see the sexual, sexual suicide
Suicide, sexual, sexual suicide

U take a walk
We can talk

the old one and the new one are both so good.

I really don't like it!

I like the song....no really....can't you tell?

Quite uniquely Prince, I would say. Great track!

CaptainJack said:

well i don't like Billy Joel's "Captain Jack"

ufoclub said:

OK, fine by me!!!
Stupid U

I like it, but I can live without it.

Like most Prince tracks I've had a thing for it at one time, but I remember when I heard it on CB, and the pristine mix kinda took the edge off it for me. Not one I listen to very often.

I think you can see why it didn't make Parade, it's rather sparse and points towards the similar kind minimal of SOTT/Black Album era Funk.

I've always loved it. Very funky. You're right, not many people talk about it.

Isn't the line "people gonna talk, sexual suicide"? As in the gossip mill after breaking up with Prince.....that girl just committed sexual suicide

The whole concept of sexual suicide Very stalkerish but cool at the same time

Was this really a Parade outtake?

Fantastic. The horn arrangement is probably too much for most, as it's got 4 baritone saxophones on it. It's strange to think that Prince's earliest horn arrangements were actually also his most experimental. Compare this stuff to what's on "Emancipation" and see what I mean.

Novabreaker said:

4? I thought it just 1, and similar to Girls and Boys... lemme listen again... it also has that crazy vocoder synth thing (is it triggered by a guitar or keyboard?) that is in Girls and Boys.

According to Prince himself it's four baritone saxophones. I don't know how many are playing the main riff though.

Sexual Suicide = Slammin' Track!

gcu1

NouveauDance said:

Somehow I've always thought of Parade as sparse sounding, too. Somehow even the richly produced songs like Christopher Tracy's Parade doesn't sound overtly full or overblown to me.

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This is a badass song. And the bass work is the icing on the cake.

the drumbeat with the tom's providing a funk shuffle is ass kickin.

Hell yeah! Shelia definetly provided a kickass beat. (Or did P learn it from her and he played it?)

One of my faves!

On of his best songs EVER. SO incredibly cool, crazy, and COLD. This mutherfucker just rocks it HARD.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I think she taught him and he played it.

calldapplwondery83 said:

What about something like Life Can Be So Nice, which is DENSE to the point of sounding like a bunch of kids with trash-can lids when you first hear it?

NouveauDance said:

I love them kids!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Me too. I love this song more and more with time.

GangstaFam said:

Seriously! I get chillgasms every time I hear it

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It used to be near the bottom of the barrel on that album for me, but it's been coming up a lot on my iPod shuffle lately and it always blows me away.

GangstaFam said:

It's always been one of my faves, although there really isn't a song on there I don't love so.....

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Same here. Parade is ace.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Oh, don't get me wrong, LCBSN is one of my all-time fav's - just expressing the density of it is all.