its definately among his best unreleased songs. I wish there was a better quality version of it though

i want to mash it up with MJ's "lisa it's your birthday" from the simpsons

Oh yeah, yeah (1 2 3 4)

Lisa, let's go 2 the movie
Lisa, let's go
Lisa, let's go 2 the village
Lisa, let's go
Tell your man, he'll understand
Lisa, let's go

Lisa, we're going 2 the movie
Lisa, let's go

It's alright, I don't care
Long as U know, somewhere
Some day, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, I don't care, oh
Lisa, I don't care

Lisa, let's go get blasted
Lisa, let's go
Lisa, I know U're nasty
Lisa, let's go

It's alright, it's OK
Long as U know, some day
Some way, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, it's OK

Yeah, let's go, yeah
Lisa, oh yeah
Yeah, yeah

It's alright, it's OK
Lisa, let's play

Alright

Are U ready, yeah yeah?
Yeah, oh yeah
Yeah yeah
Let's go {x2}

It's alright, it's OK
Long as U know, some day
Some way, we'll be 2gether
Lisa, it's OK, oh {x3}
Lisa, it's O.. it's O.. it's OK

OldFriends4Sale said:

WOW! I have never seen this picture! Coolness

I get confused...is this for Lisa Coleman?

I wonder because she tells a story of living with Prince in those early days. She says they got in an argument and he made a comment about her looking for someplace else to live.

She got in her car and left, drove around Minneapolis for a couple of hours, and when she got back he had already finished a song for her.

She said the lyric was "I guess I have a strange way of saying I love you."

Always just assumed it was the much talked about "Lisa" outtake, but it must be another Lisa song.

Anyone know the one Lisa is referring to?

As for that Dirty Mind era pic...always loved it!

Fink listening to the wall is just awesome.

Simple, but awesome.

StonedImmaculate said:

I get confused...is this for Lisa Coleman?

As far as I know, I have never heard anything else suggested.

ofcourse its about lisa coleman

I always wanted to know what the first a capella segment was.

although I always got an admiration for songs that start in the "middle" of something.

i really cant make it passed 1 mintue of this song though

StonedImmaculate said:

I get confused...is this for Lisa Coleman?

I wonder because she tells a story of living with Prince in those early days. She says they got in an argument and he made a comment about her looking for someplace else to live.

She got in her car and left, drove around Minneapolis for a couple of hours, and when she got back he had already finished a song for her.

She said the lyric was "I guess I have a strange way of saying I love you."

Always just assumed it was the much talked about "Lisa" outtake, but it must be another Lisa song.

Anyone know the one Lisa is referring to?

As for that Dirty Mind era pic...always loved it!

Fink listening to the wall is just awesome.

Simple, but awesome.

I've never heard that story, but there is a circulating outtake called "Strange Way Of Saying I Love You".

OldFriends4Sale said:

Yeah, this is pretty cool. Looks like it was folded up. Did it come with a single or something?

Dirty Mind

DIRTY MIND era pictures

"lisa" and ""I guess I have a strange way of saying I love you." are 2 diffrent songs.

Some of the lyrics are: (as far as I can tell )

I don't want to say it baby

exactly how i feel

but i want (???) this feeling baby

exactly how i feel

open a (bitter pill? can?)

I'm noting but a fool

I guess I have a strange way

of saying

I love you.

i love you

i love you

ohie ohie ohie oh

(tell us what to do)

ohie ohie ohie oh

(tell us i'm a fool)

i don't expect for you to understand

and tell me that "i need you"

I guess I have a strange way

of saying

I love you.

i love you

i love you

(???)) want you baby

(???)

but I do want a friendship relation

(???)

i don't expect for you to understand

and tell me that "i need you"

I guess I have a strange way

of saying

I love you.

i love you

i love you

ohie ohie ohie oh

(tell us what to do)

ohie ohie ohie oh

(tell us i'm a fool)

[Edited 11/28/10 11:09am]

StonedImmaculate said:

I get confused...is this for Lisa Coleman?

I wonder because she tells a story of living with Prince in those early days. She says they got in an argument and he made a comment about her looking for someplace else to live.

She got in her car and left, drove around Minneapolis for a couple of hours, and when she got back he had already finished a song for her.

She said the lyric was "I guess I have a strange way of saying I love you."

Always just assumed it was the much talked about "Lisa" outtake, but it must be another Lisa song.

Anyone know the one Lisa is referring to?

As for that Dirty Mind era pic...always loved it!

Fink listening to the wall is just awesome.

Simple, but awesome.

Yeah, it's 4 Lisa Coleman, I thought it was written around the time she joined the band and they started hanging out.

I still think she's his best influence musically, they had a cool connection. Her sound is very distinct and adds layers to Prince music I just don't hear

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

So I guess both tracks are for Lisa?

Wonder if there are anymore....

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (March 14, 2004):

Prince: An Oral History

LISA COLEMAN

He sent for me to come out to Minneapolis. I was fresh out of high school. Prince picked me up at the airport in his little Fiat sports car. He even let me smoke in his car. I dont think his ashtray had ever been used. He was really romancing me.

We got to his house and went downstairs. He pointed me to the piano and said "You can go play, and I'll be right back." I knew he was spying on me. I had been working on a Mozart concerto, so I started playing some of that. He came bounding down the stairs. Then he picked up a guitar, and we started jamming: I think he actually played "Party Up."

I stayed the weekend in a spare bedroom. When I looked around the house, he had the "A Star Is Born" poster-Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand-on his wall in the bedroom. I thought that was so cute-boy rock 'n' roll.

I lived in his house on and off for a couple of years. We had a fight one day. He said something about me getting my own apartment, and I left the house and drove around for a while. When I got back, he had written me a whole song. It was so cute. The lyric was, "I guess I have a strange way of saying I love you." He had recorded it-drums, piano, guitar, bass and vocals with harmonies."

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

What was the exact wording on that? I'd never heard they were an item at any point and it's surprising given her orientation.

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

Kinda seeing each other? Did she take a break from her relationship with Wendy to make that happen? The girl is a stone cold lesbian.

Spinlight said:

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

Kinda seeing each other? Did she take a break from her relationship with Wendy to make that happen? The girl is a stone cold lesbian.

so is prince

Spinlight said:

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

Kinda seeing each other? Did she take a break from her relationship with Wendy to make that happen? The girl is a stone cold lesbian.

It's been known for a while that Lisa and Prince dated. She's said it herself not just on this occasion but other times too.

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

'Kinda' seein' each other ... LoL

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Isn't Lisa ... Um ... A Lesbian?

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... must have been going both ways back then, hunh

[Edited 11/29/10 12:25pm]

PurpleLove7 said:

Militant said:

I remember asking Lisa about this song in a live chat her and Wendy did a while back. She confirmed it was about her and that they were kinda seeing each other at the time.

'Kinda' seein' each other ... LoL

[img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/104.gif[/img:$uid]

Isn't Lisa ... Um ... A?

[img:$uid]http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/26.gif[/img:$uid]

... must have been going both ways back then, hunh

[Edited 11/29/10 12:25pm]

now we know what they meant when they called him a fancy Lesbian