So anybody got any Pince songs they sang lyrics pretty incorrectly?

Here's some examples

"Maybe I'M just like mother"- When Doves Cry

"I got a line in my pocket and baby he's ready to roll"- 1999

"I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways in the woodland grass"- Little Red Corvette

There have been a thousand 'misheard lyric' threads (hell, my sig has one example), but from the title of the thread, I thought you were looking for examples of where Prince screwed up the lyrics on a studio cut. So I have one of those:

In the album version of I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, I'd swear that Prince says, "I asked me if she wanted to dance". Does anybody else hear it that way?

eyewishuheaven said:

Steve Wright In The Afternoon (UK, 80s, Radio 1 Show) used to have a slot called "Twisted Lyrics".

I always remember the one from PR;

"Honey I know, I know, I know times are changing" sounds like "Honey I know, I know, I know God is a Triffid"

Every time I hear that line I always think of that.

"Cheese always in my hair"

"I guess I must be dumb,she had a pocketfull of horses.....children were so confused"

^

it was the seventies after all

1+1+1= 3

"Let me see you shake your hands/pants? We don't give a duck what you got on."

...Wait, those ARE the lyrics.

Prince really quacked up on that one.

purpledoveuk said:

Hey lover I'm so glad you came

I've always thought that those were the actual lyrics, until now.

purplemonster04 said:

purplemonster04 said:

purpledoveuk said:

Hey lover I'm so glad you came

I've always thought that those were the actual lyrics, until now.

It's actually much dirtier. "Hey lover, I got a sugarcane I want to lose in you but baby can you stand the pain"

Just like he said on Lopez Tonight: Yes, I do forget and it just sounds like new music to me. Great answer.

I thought he was singing "The Cross" but it turns out he was singing "The Christ". Who knew!?!?!

"I Love U In Me" - "When we're makin' love it's like surgery", kind of a stupid lyric as he was trying to come up with a rhyme. Great song otherwise, IMHO.

[Edited 10/28/11 6:13am]

^

He could've said 'symphony'

Sounds a bit cheesy though

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Purpleaxxe1972 said:

"I Love U In Me" - "When we're makin' love it's like surgery", kind of a stupid lyric as he was trying to come up with a rhyme. Great song otherwise, IMHO.

[Edited 10/28/11 6:13am]

I wouldlove to see him do a comedy

mzsadii said:

purpledoveuk said:

mzsadii said:

I wouldlove to see him do a comedy

You've not seen Graffiti Bridge?

I consider it as more of a horror.

^

On his Stick Like Glue rap, I thought he said, "I'm just a friend of your mother's."

Of course he says, "I'm just in front of them others."

Purpleaxxe1972 said:

"I Love U In Me" - "When we're makin' love it's like surgery", kind of a stupid lyric as he was trying to come up with a rhyme. Great song otherwise, IMHO.

[Edited 10/28/11 6:13am]

Why is it "stupid" and what makes you think he was "just trying to come up with a rhyme"?

Its a type of metaphor, a simile, and the word "surgery" is very specifically used - you're supposed to interpret what he is saying, not discard it as someone struggling to rhyme with the word "me", which is incredibly easy to rhyme!

Dewrede suggested "Symphony", but that would invoke an entirely different idea to the one Prince is conveying. Surgery is precise, clinical, but also invasive and penetrating - and the use of such an apparently unrelated word is deliberately disarming, demanding attention.

Mindflux said:

From "Love"

" Whats the point in giving me old tomatoes...

Smilin at my friends when u really hate em.."

schming said:

From "Love"

" Whats the point in giving me old tomatoes...

Smilin at my friends when u really hate em.."

From Shockadelica:

"The lights go out,

the smell of doom,

Al Qaeda's creepin' into your lonely room..."

I'd say almost all of The Rainbow Children is a lyrical screw-up.

I used to think when Prince sang "sing it for your nation y'all" in 1999, it was:

"sing it for filet mignon"

When I finally listened to the lyrics properly, I realised that it sounded nothing like that "filet mignon".

La La La Hee Hee Hee

sounds like

My My My Wee Wee Wee

^

purpledoveuk said:

eyewishuheaven said:

There have been a thousand 'misheard lyric' threads (hell, my sig has one example), but from the title of the thread, I thought you were looking for examples of where Prince screwed up the lyrics on a studio cut. So I have one of those:

In the album version of I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, I'd swear that Prince says, "I asked me if she wanted to dance". Does anybody else hear it that way?

Yeah I hear that too.... "ladies and gentleman, now features Queen". - Partymam ("no pictures please") "So Buddy Holly did you come to party?" - Partyman ("somebody holler...") "I came - I was dead and gone" - Head (the wedding gown line) "Everybody wanna see U dying 4 the cum, it's bad enough being a real mans son" - I can't stop this feeling I got ...there are loads I've misheard over the years - ill think on it yoday I had a friend who absolutely swore for all the time I knew him that the lyric in insatiable was "let's relax and have some wine" instead of unwind - couldnt convince him otherwise

i have 2 questions

1) what the fuck were u smoking when u were listening to "can't stop"?

2) where can i buy some??????