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Prince lyrics that make me say, "WHAT!?!?" I love me some Prince songs, but some of his lyrics confuse the hell out of me. I've actually tried to understand some of the odd ones and gave myself a headache. I do understand the majority of his word wizardry, but these next lyrics have still got me stumped.
"Strangled Valentino, Been mine ever since, If anybody asks U, U belong to Prince" ("Private Joy") - Love this song, and this is actually my favorite part even though I have not a damn clue as to what it means. Who is Valentino and why must he be strangled? Plus, I love how he made up a whole word in the song, "Orgasmatron".  Brilliant!
"Like Evian and the deep blue see - U and me got different tastes."("Blue Light") -  So, she likes water that she can actually drink without dying??? Doesn't everyone?
"I got a jones, Martha." and "I can't help it, Martha." ("Insatiable") - Who the hell is this Martha chick and why is she allowed to call Prince, "Insatiable"? "23 positions in a one night stand." ("Gett Off") - Uhhh, No. I don't know who came up with this number. I've put in some major effort; and I could only get 7. Either I'm not as good as I believe myself to be, or someone is lying. They must have been playing naked Twister. "We can imagine what silence looks like." ("If  Was Ur Girlfriend") - Yeah, the only way I'm going to be sitting around with anyone and imagining what silence looks like is if I'm extremely drunk, extremely high, and going on 2 hours of sleep after being awake for 3 days straight. At this point, not only would I be able to imagine what silence looks like, but also what darkness sounds like; and how air tastes.
I guess if I ever met Prince, we would at least have something to talk about. [Edited 1/18/07 3:31am] Prince Rogers Nelson
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estelle81 said: I love me some Prince songs, but some of his lyrics confuse the hell out of me. I've actually tried to understand some of the odd ones and gave myself a headache. I do understand the majority of his word wizardry, but these next lyrics have still got me stumped.
"Strangled Valentino, Been mine ever since, If anybody asks U, U belong to Prince" ("Private Joy") - Love this song, and this is actually my favorite part even though I have not a damn clue as to what it means. Who is Valentino and why must he be strangled? Plus, I love how he made up a whole word in the song, "Orgasmatron". Brilliant!
He probably meant Rudolpho Valentino, a famous Hollywood actor and womanizer.They say thousands of women went to his funeral. "Like Evian and the deep blue see - U and me got different tastes."("Blue Light") - So, she likes water that she can actually drink without dying??? Doesn't everyone?
"I got a jones, Martha." and "I can't help it, Martha." ("Insatiable") - Who the hell is this Martha chick and why is she allowed to call Prince, "Insatiable"? Martha doesn´t really exist, that was some sort of inside joke, a fictional character, as Michael Bland once said on this site. "23 positions in a one night stand." ("Gett Off") - Uhhh, No. I don't know who came up with this number. I've put in some major effort; and I could only get 7. Either I'm not as good as I believe myself to be, or someone is lying. They must have been playing naked Twister. Check out some of the stuff that the great Robert Anton Wilson wrote about the mysterious number 23. www.rawilson.com "We can imagine what silence looks like." ("If Was Ur Girlfriend") - Yeah, the only way I'm going to be sitting around with anyone and imagining what silence looks like is if I'm extremely drunk, extremely high, and going on 2 hours of sleep after being awake for 3 days straight. At this point, not only would I be able to imagine what silence looks like, but also what darkness sounds like; and how air tastes.
I guess if I ever met Prince, we would at least have something to talk about. [Edited 1/18/07 3:31am] " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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estelle81 said: Plus, I love how he made up a whole word in the song, "Orgasmatron".
Brilliant!
Prince did not make up the word "Orgasmatron."  It first appeared in the 1973 Woody Allen film "Sleeper." The same idea was also used in "Barbarella" (though not that particular word).We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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snagglevoice He says this at the end of 1+1+1=3. I have never heard this word in my life. Hundalasiliah What the!? Heavy feather, flicka nipple Baby scam water ripple It is written this way on purpose I am sure, but I love it! Pretty pony standing on the avenue From 'The Future' 'A pillow covered in all our tears' | |
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"We can imagine what silence looks like." ("If Was Ur Girlfriend") - Yeah, the only way I'm going to be sitting around with anyone and imagining what silence looks like is if I'm extremely drunk, extremely high, and going on 2 hours of sleep after being awake for 3 days straight. At this point, not only would I be able to imagine what silence looks like, but also what darkness sounds like; and how air tastes.
I am sure he is talking about the after glow from sex. Given the lyrics leading up to it. 'A pillow covered in all our tears' | |
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regarding the lyric in "Private Joy"....I think Valentino is a famous womanizer/ladies' man? So basically Prince is saying "I'm the new Valentino in town....I strangled (destroyed) him,so now I'm the most romantic man in the world...I've taken his place"
at least that's how I interpret those lyrics | |
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"Take a glove, fill it with hot baby lotion and slip it on (well), pull it tight, that's what Carrie was like, on stroke and I was gone."
I think I did actually say "What?!" out loud.  " | |
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estelle81 said: I love me some Prince songs, but some of his lyrics confuse the hell out of me. I've actually tried to understand some of the odd ones and gave myself a headache. I do understand the majority of his word wizardry, but these next lyrics have still got me stumped.
"Strangled Valentino, Been mine ever since, If anybody asks U, U belong to Prince" ("Private Joy") - Love this song, and this is actually my favorite part even though I have not a damn clue as to what it means. Who is Valentino and why must he be strangled? Plus, I love how he made up a whole word in the song, "Orgasmatron". Brilliant!
"Like Evian and the deep blue see - U and me got different tastes."("Blue Light") - So, she likes water that she can actually drink without dying??? Doesn't everyone?
"I got a jones, Martha." and "I can't help it, Martha." ("Insatiable") - Who the hell is this Martha chick and why is she allowed to call Prince, "Insatiable"? "23 positions in a one night stand." ("Gett Off") - Uhhh, No. I don't know who came up with this number. I've put in some major effort; and I could only get 7. Either I'm not as good as I believe myself to be, or someone is lying. They must have been playing naked Twister. "We can imagine what silence looks like." ("If Was Ur Girlfriend") - Yeah, the only way I'm going to be sitting around with anyone and imagining what silence looks like is if I'm extremely drunk, extremely high, and going on 2 hours of sleep after being awake for 3 days straight. At this point, not only would I be able to imagine what silence looks like, but also what darkness sounds like; and how air tastes.
I guess if I ever met Prince, we would at least have something to talk about. [Edited 1/18/07 3:31am] I thought he meant Evian the mermaid. No matter the ©️, Paisley Park "official can never ™️  . He gave that to us verbally on Oprah in 1996. You can't take away from us, corporate. I mean O ( + > | |
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KoolEaze said: Check out some of the stuff that the great Robert Anton Wilson wrote about the mysterious number 23.
www.rawilson.com Slightly off-topic, but I assume you are aware that, sadly, RAW died last week ? http://www.10zenmonkeys.c...1932-2007/ Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Leonard. RIP. |
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estelle81 said: .
"Strangled Valentino, Been mine ever since, If anybody asks U, U belong to Prince" ("Private Joy") "Like Evian and the deep blue see - U and me got different tastes."("Blue Light") -
"We can imagine what silence looks like." ("If Was Ur Girlfriend")
I guess if I ever met Prince, we would at least have something to talk about. [Edited 1/18/07 3:31am] Valentino was a famous lady's man (as stated above) not sure if he got strangled by a pissed of ex but i know over 2,000 women turned up to his funeral in fact prince mentions that in an interview, for the blue light quote he means you like the taste of evian(bottled water) and i like the taste of natural water(though by the time it come outta the tap it aint natural) as for if i was your girlfiend, i guess he's saying if you can imagine that i was your girlfriend now imagine what silence looks just to stumpp her Like a Gb Major with a E in the bass | |
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No one strangled Valentino. He died of peritonitis -- an infection that set in after surgery for a perforated ulcer. He was only 31. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Genesia said: No one strangled Valentino. He died of peritonitis -- an infection that set in after surgery for a perforated ulcer. He was only 31.
I am shocked that you folks don't know who Rudolph Valentino is.
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sosgemini said: Genesia said: No one strangled Valentino. He died of peritonitis -- an infection that set in after surgery for a perforated ulcer. He was only 31.
I am shocked that you folks don't know who Rudolph Valentino is.
Right? Only the original sex symbol. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Threads like this make me feel old as hell. None of those lyrics quoted in the OP are confusing at all, in fact, they are quite straight forward. | |
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DJ016 said: Threads like this make me feel old as hell.
None of those lyrics quoted in the OP are confusing at all, in fact, they are quite straight forward.Well, you know it's difficult when you're too young to have a frame of reference.
Although...I can't remember a time (even as a teenager) when I didn't know who Rudolph Valentino was. I think I saw "Blood and Sand" for the first time when I was around 17 (right after I saw the film Valentino, which starred Rudolph Nureyev). We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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estelle81 said: "Like Evian and the deep blue see - U and me got different tastes."("Blue Light") - So, she likes water that she can actually drink without dying??? Doesn't everyone?
[Edited 1/18/07 3:31am] I always thought that was just to be taken literally, you know. Sea water and Evian taste completely differently. Prince and the mystery woman have different tastes in sex. Am I missing something?!?!?!? So look into the mirror, do u recognise some1? Is it who u always hoped u would become, when u were young? | |
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Wow. Thanks bunches to everyone for interpreting these lyrics to me. After all the explanations, they do seem extremely straight-forward. I know who Rudolph Valentino is, but I didn't know that Prince liked him enough to put him in a song. Sometimes I try to make his lyrics into more than what they are. I overthink them.  From now on, I'll just ease into them.Prince Rogers Nelson
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The orginal jerk out lyrics; DAMN! | |
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dogmaiswrong said: The orginal jerk out lyrics; DAMN!
Are they really that much different than the Time´s version ?  " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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KoolEaze said: dogmaiswrong said: The orginal jerk out lyrics; DAMN!
Are they really that much different than the Time´s version ? Very violent; disturbing and racist. Jerk out #2 (6:57) (lead vocals by Mazarati) I got real bored on a friday night, I couldn't find a damn thing to do. So I pulled out a suit about the same color as my BMW. I drove to the party and I pimped on in, just to see what I could see. Everybody knew what I was lookin' for, I was lookin' for some company. I saw a real fine thing sittin' by the bar. She looked kinda all alone. So I pimped on over and I asked her name. The child was bad to the bone. I showed her my stash and I kissed her cheek. The only kind of rap it takes. She knew I was bad when I pulled out a leash, she said "How much money you make?" Jerk it, jerk it. Talkin' 'bout the jerk out. Jerk it, jerk it. Talkin' 'bout the jerk out. I took her to my crib and I tied her up. I figured that's what she liked. Maybe I was wrong but what the hell, it didn't matter to me. - She was white. I said "How come people in your neighborhood, don't like it when a brother's rich? Ain't my blood the same color as yours? Answer that question, bitch!" It just pisses you off to see me drivin' that fancy car, don't it? Bet you'd rather see me drivin' one of those ester grate ones. Like the one your daddy drives, wouldn't you? Let me tell you one thing. That's dead! About as dead as you'll be if you don't rearrange your brain. Catch my drift. Turn it up! Oh, nasty me! Girl, you think you wanna turn it up? Where's my checkbook? That's right, check it out. An awful lot of O's, wouldn't you say? Hit it. Cross over, uh! Turn it up. Jerk out, jerkin' everything in sight. Jerk out, got to make some love tonight. Jerk out. Don't cha all just hate it, when we walk into y'all's joint? And just jerk out everything in sight? Don't it make you mad? Jerk out - Don't it make you mad? Jerk out - It'd make me mad! Everybody in the house say "Jerk out" - Jerk out! "Ow!" - Ow! Say "Jerk out" - Jerk out! "Ow!" - Ow! Everybody say "Jerk out" - Jerk out! "Ow!" - Ow! Everybody say "Jerk out" - Jerk out! "Ow!" - Ow! People, let me turn it up. Which coat should I wear tonight? If you think I'm vain, you're right. Look out, somebody say "Vanity" - Vanity! "Jerk out" - Jerk out! "Ow!" - Ow! Everybody jerk out and do it right. I'm talkin' 'bout the jerk out. Oh Lawd, hey yeah. Got to make some love to night. I'm master of the jerk out, oh Lawd. Jerkin' everything in sight. I'm talkin' 'bout the jerk out, oh Lawd. Got to make some love tonight. Turn it up, uh! Jerk out, oh yeah! Jerkin' everything in sight. Wait a minute, talkin' 'bout the jerk out. Jerkin' everything in sight. Jerk out. Jerkin' everything in sight. I'm talkin' 'bout the jerk out, oh Lawd. Got to make... I got to make a little love tonight. Jerk out! Printed without permission. © 1981, 1985. Written by [Prince]. Previously unreleased. [Edited 1/19/07 5:26am] | |
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That´s one of the few unreleased and circulating songs I have yet to hear but what I´ve read right now is truly disturbing. Does he really sing WHITE or is it rather "She was RIGHT" ? That´s just as sick as that rape lyric in Extraloveable, but that was at least meant as a woman´s song...( planned for Vanity). But this one is strange. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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No wonder Mazarati didn't want to record "Jerkout" when Prince presented it to them those lyrics are kinda rough,lol | |
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Oh come on it's not that shocking... " | |
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FruitToAttractBears said: Oh come on it's not that shocking...
It's racist and sick. Why would anyone want to write that? | |
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KoolEaze said:
That´s one of the few unreleased and circulating songs I have yet to hear but what I´ve read right now is truly disturbing. Does he really sing WHITE or is it rather "She was RIGHT" ? That´s just as sick as that rape lyric in Extraloveable, but that was at least meant as a woman´s song...( planned for Vanity). But this one is strange. They are the correct actual lyrics. | |
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dogmaiswrong said: FruitToAttractBears said: Oh come on it's not that shocking...
It's racist and sick. Why would anyone want to write that? Get a grip. It's not racist. It's acting out through lyrics, the frustration of a person of color who has achieved monetary success, yet will still be looked upon as less than human by multitudes of racist white people. Jeez. The Normal Whores Club | |
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FunkMistress said: dogmaiswrong said: It's racist and sick. Why would anyone want to write that? Get a grip. It's not racist. It's acting out through lyrics, the frustration of a person of color who has achieved monetary success, yet will still be looked upon as less than human by multitudes of racist white people. Jeez. yeah right. Let's beat a white women because of all the racists out there; that's o.k isn;t it? | |
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FunkMistress said: dogmaiswrong said: It's racist and sick. Why would anyone want to write that? Get a grip. It's not racist. It's acting out through lyrics, the frustration of a person of color who has achieved monetary success, yet will still be looked upon as less than human by multitudes of racist white people. Jeez. Substitute "She was black," and tell me again how racist it isn't. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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dogmaiswrong said: FunkMistress said: Get a grip. It's not racist. It's acting out through lyrics, the frustration of a person of color who has achieved monetary success, yet will still be looked upon as less than human by multitudes of racist white people. Jeez. yeah right. Let's beat a white women because of all the racists out there; that's o.k isn;t it? Of course it is! I beat ten white women this morning before breakfast! Let freedom ring! The Normal Whores Club | |
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FunkMistress said: dogmaiswrong said: yeah right. Let's beat a white women because of all the racists out there; that's o.k isn;t it? Of course it is! I beat ten white women this morning before breakfast! Let freedom ring!  | |
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