My favorite Prince song is Purple Rain, I think everybody knows that by now.

I've been thinking about this for a long time, looking into every possible explanation how Prince could get inspired to write about coloured precipitation but honestly I don't have a clue. Whenever it rains down here it's grey, sometimes we have rainbows but most of the time it is dull and grey. He must have been smoking something when he wrote PR, or what do you think his inspiration was to write the greatest song of all time ?

Thanks !

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FIRST!!!!!

Wrong forum

maybe he saw the rain fall at dawn when the sun is just about to rise, right at that perfect moment when you see colours in the sky you never would in the daytime...

that peak of reds and purples and then a light rainfall...


that's what i think of when i hear it

EverSouliciouSucks said:

Thank you, come again !

and again

One4All4Ever said:

and again and again?

EverSouliciouSucks said:

please

One4All4Ever said:

only if I can return the favor

HAHAHAHAHA it got moved!!!!! lmfao

jess555ja said:

I knew that ...
Just testing the reaction skills of the mods

EverSouliciouSucks said:

I'm on a roll baby ...

One4All4Ever said:

One4All4Ever said:

tissue?

so i guess my serious post got lost amongst all this huh?

EverSouliciouSucks said:

Only if you hang around ...
[Edited 1/2/08 13:23pm]

sammij said:

sorry

sammij said:

nope ... I was replying when it got moved

Allthough I think it is the greatest song of all time, I still can't imagine how it was conceived. I don't see any romance in a girl dancing in the rain at sunset while her man tells her they had a great fuck, but he really only wants to be a friend ... hey !

One4All4Ever said:

deal

actually the line


is imho the most genius in music history ...

Purple Rain is a metaphor. It's not meant to be taken seriously.

In order to understand the significance of the symbolism we first have to understand what each of the elements in of the song represent to Prince and piece them together.

Water, which is porported to contain vast amounts of dehydrogen monoxide here in the USA (I'm not sure if this is true in Europe or other parts of the world), is prevailing element in the song. Prince was absolutely obsessed with dehydrogen monoxide throughout his career which is evident in songs like "Something in the Water", "Soft and Wet", and "Melt with U". In the song "Melt with U" prince proclaims, "Don't look now, but there's a river of blood...you must have been a virgin...what am I guilty of?"
If you do your research you'll realize that dehydrogen monoxide is found in large quantities in blood. And from where did this blood come from? You guessed it--a vagina.

So Prince is saying that water equates to vagina. That it is, in fact synomomous with vaginas. This is not to say that there isn't a spiritual angle to all of this, as sometimes, water also represents the divine in Princes symbolism. So we must ask ourselves, is Prince talking about God or pussy?
That's where the significance of the color purple comes in.

Contrary to popular belief, the word 'purple', outside of the song purple rain and various other songs in the album of the same title, is not mentioned that many times in Prince's career. Or at least not as many times as you would expect Prince to mention it.

Prince mentions things that are red... that is, blood. Or in Susanna's Pajamas (the expression of his complection--which means blushing, which means red), he mentions the color red without saying what it is.
Red symbolizes embarassment in that song. In Susanna's Pajamas, Prince says, "Isn't the expression in my complection enough?". Meaning, isn't the embarrassment of my flushed face enough to let you know how I feel about you?

Also, Prince sings about "blue" in many songs, which always means something very sexual like "Blue Light" from the symbol album, or something really depressing like "So Blue".

And what about Purple? Isn't Purple just a combination of red and blue? In other words isn't purple made from blue (the expression for depression) and red (the expression for embarrassment)? And we've established that rain stands for vaginas.

So Purple Rain, literally translated means an depressing, embarrassing, vagina. Prince is saying that he never meant his friendship to end with you, cause you any sorrow, or cause you any pain, but that because of your embarrassing, depressing, vagina, he wants to guide you to the embarrassing, depressing, savior (the other connotation of 'rain'). In other words , if you don't catch my drift, your stank pussy needs some Jesus!


Prince is extremely clever with double meaning in these songs.

Purple Rain lives on as a legacy of Rock and Roll perfection revealing some of his innermost obsessions at that time.

Imago said:

Start a thread Imago

I believe the song is a spiritual "reign" It's a love song. It's an apology.

One4All4Ever said:

I wanted to let you know what I feel about "Purple Rain".
I feel that Purple being of "royal" spiritual divinity that it feels like a spiritual divine rain of the body mind and soul. It feels as though he is saying... I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain... I only want to see you return to the original "source" of truth! N love w/heaven... aka purple rain.

Take care,
QuietSeven

Wasn't Purple Rain influenced by Jimi Hendrix?

I just want to know how some people come up with their incredible answers

@ Imago ... Purple Rain is just 'Purple Reign' cause he was the Prince of his domain and purple represents royalty lol..

as far as him writing the song... I thought Wendy and Lisa wrote this song with him..

Protege said:

that's because the people here really know what's going on ... I feel humble in the presence of such greatness.

You know those little purple veins that get all pumped up during an erection and throb right before ejaculation

Purple Rain


is all I'm saying

A year earlier, when he was on the "1999" tour, during his live performance if "International Lover", he was humping and grinding inside the bathtub and shot his load. He saw it dripping through the glare of the purple stage lights and smoke.

Imago said:

Or, maybe he was inspired by the line in America's signature song, 1972's "Ventura Highway" - "Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain".

If so, we should be happy Prince chose "Purple Rain" instead of "Alligator Lizards in the Air".