Wow. This is really a nice song. I've never paid it much attention. I guess from the title I assumed I would be assaulted with bible verses and religious dogma. However, that is not the case. I quite enjoy it.

Anyone else have a similar experience with this or another Prince song where you might have avoided the song due to the title or time period that it was released, but later discovered a little gem?

If I leave my front door open
would u come and visit me?
Just 2 slander my name hopin'
that I would pack my bags and leave...
If I did would u remember
2 feed the dove and clean the cage?
And never count in front of the children
lest they die of old age

I don't really know y we have 2 go r separate ways
Whether or not we grow after the seeds r shown
Only time can say...

Can I offer u baklava?
or a bagel with cream cheese?
Will we say grace 2 r father
holding hands down on r knees?
R we better off just fighting?
U on ur side, me on mine
R the words that I keep writing...
only pearls b4 the swine?
What makes men claim that u're a friend
when u're not at all?
They knock u down and then,
they lift u up again, just 2 c u fall...
But like a bird I'll keep on singing...
a song that never leaves ur mind
If nothing else u've taught me one thing...
"Never cast ur pearls b4 the swine"



i like this song
firstly because baklava is my favorite dessert
secondly because casting my pearls b4 swine is something i still do silly me
and thirdly because by doing what i'm told not to, i learned that love is free from all of this.....

i can cast my pearls before swine
they're still pearls
it doesnt hurt me anymore when they roll around in them like mud-pigs

pigs will be pigs
lovers will be lovers

i got it straight on which one of those I Am

God's Love moves in mysterious ways thru the actions and words of others
it can pinch and poke u awake if ur really listening
it can soothe u when ur heart is aching
it can cool when ur head is pounding
it can strip u naked, make u hate it,
make u lonely, force u to fake it

Love wants out of the box mankind has nailed it in
its so much more. x

for a song that says "stay the fuck outta my house, you ungrateful beyotches", it's quite pleasant.

Great song. Great damn song.

better then great...

Phenom.

In my top 10 unreleased tracks.

Brilliance

2020 said:

But... it's been officially released.

I adore this song.

Everytime someone starts a thread about PBTS, I just have to post on it

Ah, I forgot to put this on my Prince; The Duds compilation...

Thank you for reminding me of this Prince Dud DeLuxe!

HamsterHuey said:

are you calling this little gem a dud?!?

you ain´t got no taste!!

garganta said:

Thank you. And no. I just like two songs offa that album, actually. But to each their own.

This song is great it has a good meaning to me, heck this whole album was like a gem I found in 2004, I had never heard this album but it is definately one of my top 5. Funny to me how people dont have a clue! They hear it but dont really listen. Peace and Love

can I offer you baklava...dootdootdooo


LOVE IT

And I think this song contains one of the most stupide lyrics Prince EVER sang...

Man, I would rather hear him sing "I am a dog, outside your door" then to suffer through "Can I offer u baklava?" over probably the easiest melody he ever wrote and with easy I do not mean good things with "easiest".

The piano/vocal melody actually is capable of making me aggressive. SKIP>>

endorphin74 said:

Well, I don't. Really don't.

Its funny how some songs effect people in different ways, i think of this song meaning, always watch ur back! The music is nice! Anyway, everybody has their opinion, but funny how peoples opinions reflect the person they really r. Peace and Love

HamsterHuey said:

awww kitty, but it's CUTE!!

endorphin74 said:

I think it´s a shame that hamsterhuey won´t have any of Prince´s baklava. Whatever that was anyway.

janecarol said:

So, I am really a person with taste?

basically a FU to the people like me who went to the 2001 Celebration and were put off by TRC.

Still a nice enough track, but it shows a bit of Prince's intolerance of anybody that doesnt agree with everything he says.

bellanoche said:

what is this - what is this song - I have never heard it - I must hear it - where can I get it - I want it now!!!