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Reply #30 posted 02/27/11 5:10pm

hhhhdmt

datdude said:

lyrics post please. that'll help. never thought about it as an oral sex song. i think we're reaching

i dont think we're reaching. He starts off with "i am going down"

At the end of the song the girl is saying "a b c d e f i love you". She doesnt say the letter g because its her g spot that he is stimulating

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Reply #31 posted 02/27/11 5:11pm

hhhhdmt

datdude said:

lyrics post please. that'll help. never thought about it as an oral sex song. i think we're reaching

No!

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street
I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet
I'm gonna talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head 2 my feet

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yes she will
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her 2 ... Tennessee

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tennessee
Yeah, yeah, yeah, drive her

Excuse me, baby
I don't mean 2 be rude
But I guess tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood
So if U don't mind (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would like to...watch

Yeah, yeah, yeah...can I?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Can I, can I, can I, can I)

We're going down, down, down, if that's the only way
2 make this cruel, cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day

Yeah, yeah, yeah, better days
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's O-O-K
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Maybe it's the only way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Cat, we need U 2 rap
Cat, we need U 2 rap
Don't give 2 us slow
Cause we know U know
New Power Soul
Gotta gotta gotta go!

Talk 2 me lover
Come on tell me what U taste
Didn't your mama tell U
Life is 2 good 2 waste? (Put your love down)
Didn't she tell U
That Lovesexy was the glam of them all?
If U can hang, U can trip on it
U surely won't fall (Put your love down)
No side effects and
The feeling last 4-ever
Straight up - it tastes good
It makes U feel clever (Put your love down)
U kiss your enemies
Like U know U should
Then U jerk your body
Like a horny pony would (Put your love down)
U jerk your body like a horny pony would
Now run and tell your mama about that!

And while U're at it tell your papa about this

Yeah-yeah

Put your love down there when u wanna get shot

No! (Yeah, yeah)

Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot
Put your love down there when u wanna get shot

Put your love down there...

Get home, Alphabet Street

No!

L-L-L-L-Lovesexy

Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street

A B C D E F H I love U

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Reply #32 posted 02/27/11 9:02pm

datdude

hmmm, after looking at the lyrics through THAT lens, i guess it just might be about cunning linguistics. "put your love down there when u wanna get shot". thanks for posting

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Reply #33 posted 02/27/11 9:26pm

muskiediver

Alphabet Street is actually another name for a road (lake?) in Minneapolis. All the cross roads start with a, b, c, d etc..

You can get ton Tenessee via 94.

Sex in this song...absolutely. But most of it really is about alphabet st.

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Reply #34 posted 02/28/11 3:03pm

yeahthatsthe1

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alphastreet said:

WHY did he skip G? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? I've been asking you all for years since I joined!!!!!



Illiterate bitch!


Couldn't find the G-spot.
"Would you hold it agaisnt me, if I said I loved another?" ♥
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Reply #35 posted 02/28/11 3:07pm

Spinlight

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muskiediver said:

Alphabet Street is actually another name for a road (lake?) in Minneapolis. All the cross roads start with a, b, c, d etc..

You can get ton Tenessee via 94.

Sex in this song...absolutely. But most of it really is about alphabet st.

No, while the setting may be what you said, that's not the basis for the song. It isn't talking about the street or whatever, its talking about what he is going to do to her.

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Reply #36 posted 02/28/11 3:50pm

Illuminations

Spinlight said:

muskiediver said:

Alphabet Street is actually another name for a road (lake?) in Minneapolis. All the cross roads start with a, b, c, d etc..

You can get ton Tenessee via 94.

Sex in this song...absolutely. But most of it really is about alphabet st.

No, while the setting may be what you said, that's not the basis for the song. It isn't talking about the street or whatever, its talking about what he is going to do to her.

No... it's about what he wants someone else to do to her since he's not in the mood... lol.

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Reply #37 posted 02/28/11 4:05pm

Chiquetet

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Illuminations said:

Spinlight said:

No, while the setting may be what you said, that's not the basis for the song. It isn't talking about the street or whatever, its talking about what he is going to do to her.

No... it's about what he wants someone else to do to her since he's not in the mood... lol.

I doubt he wants anyone else to do something to her...

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Reply #38 posted 02/28/11 4:11pm

muskiediver

Spinlight said:

muskiediver said:

Alphabet Street is actually another name for a road (lake?) in Minneapolis. All the cross roads start with a, b, c, d etc..

You can get ton Tenessee via 94.

Sex in this song...absolutely. But most of it really is about alphabet st.

No, while the setting may be what you said, that's not the basis for the song. It isn't talking about the street or whatever, its talking about what he is going to do to her.

Just telling you what I heard while I was there. The term alphabet street refers to a street in Minneapolis. Prince has many other terms he used to describe places (Los Angelese he would call la la land etc.).

C.J. Johnson whom he wrote Bill Jack Bitch about him, approached him one day and Prince said....Biiiiilllly.

That's just the thng that Prince does. Locals know a lot more about his music than the rest of the world due to this little things he does or says.

Just like when we use to hang out at Rudophs before a private show back in da day!

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Reply #39 posted 02/28/11 4:15pm

Illuminations

Chiquetet said:

Illuminations said:

No... it's about what he wants someone else to do to her since he's not in the mood... lol.

I doubt he wants anyone else to do something to her...

I know... I was just kidding smile

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Reply #40 posted 02/28/11 4:17pm

muskiediver

Illuminations said:

Spinlight said:

No, while the setting may be what you said, that's not the basis for the song. It isn't talking about the street or whatever, its talking about what he is going to do to her.

No... it's about what he wants someone else to do to her since he's not in the mood... lol.

He called the stree Alphabet Street since he was a kid


Aldrich
Bryant
Colifx
Dupont
Emerson
Freemont
Girad

etc.

It is either N. Lowery Ave or Broadway as I recall. Where he use to live.

Get it?

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Reply #41 posted 03/01/11 9:25am

paisleypark4

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alphastreet said:

WHY did he skip G? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY? I've been asking you all for years since I joined!!!!!

Illiterate bitch!

She probably could not think straight wink doh!

Years ago, this question was asked by a fan and Prince answered that she was too busy being occupied wink or something to that equasion

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Reply #42 posted 03/01/11 10:20am

NDRU

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I always thought it was just a silly song with no particular meaning other than Prince saying he is going to get the first girl that he meets.

Within the context of the album, I see it as the physical temptation (ie old Prince, same kind of theme as My Name Is Prince) before the spiritual redemption of the later part of the album.

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Reply #43 posted 03/01/11 11:56am

paisleypark4

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hhhhdmt said:

datdude said:

lyrics post please. that'll help. never thought about it as an oral sex song. i think we're reaching

No!

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street
I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet
I'm gonna talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head 2 my feet

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yes she will
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her 2 ... Tennessee

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Tennessee
Yeah, yeah, yeah, drive her

Excuse me, baby
I don't mean 2 be rude
But I guess tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood
So if U don't mind (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would like to...watch

Yeah, yeah, yeah...can I?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Can I, can I, can I, can I)

We're going down, down, down, if that's the only way
2 make this cruel, cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day

Yeah, yeah, yeah, better days
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's O-O-K
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Maybe it's the only way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Cat, we need U 2 rap
Cat, we need U 2 rap
Don't give 2 us slow
Cause we know U know
New Power Soul
Gotta gotta gotta go!

Talk 2 me lover
Come on tell me what U taste
Didn't your mama tell U
Life is 2 good 2 waste? (Put your love down)
Didn't she tell U
That Lovesexy was the glam of them all?
If U can hang, U can trip on it
U surely won't fall (Put your love down)
No side effects and
The feeling last 4-ever
Straight up - it tastes good
It makes U feel clever (Put your love down)
U kiss your enemies
Like U know U should
Then U jerk your body
Like a horny pony would (Put your love down)
U jerk your body like a horny pony would
Now run and tell your mama about that!

This theme like lyricism in his music, "spooky electric will be your boos!" used to be TIGHT

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Album plays and love for vinyl records.
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Reply #44 posted 03/01/11 12:46pm

CerpinTaxt

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Maaan no WAY is this song about cunnilingus. No way.

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Reply #45 posted 03/01/11 1:22pm

eireboy34

It could be about foot massages??

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