anytime he says "i was the best you ever had"

purplepolitician said:

ZsaZsaJackson said:

purplepolitician said:

whatever pops into my head first.

what popped into your keyboard to come up with that?

I also quite like 'what can I say Shakespeare hasn't said before?' in I Like It There

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I also quite like 'what can I say Shakespeare hasn't said before?' in I Like It There

I do, too--mainly because that whole embryo/abortion/dire need thing that follows is actually, I think, something Shakespeare didn't say before.

But who knows--maybe he did.

EddieC said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I also quite like 'what can I say Shakespeare hasn't said before?' in I Like It There

I do, too--mainly because that whole embryo/abortion/dire need thing that follows is actually, I think, something Shakespeare didn't say before.

But who knows--maybe he did.

My attention span prevents me from reading Shaspeare.

Did I miss out on anything important?

EddieC said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I also quite like 'what can I say Shakespeare hasn't said before?' in I Like It There

I do, too--mainly because that whole embryo/abortion/dire need thing that follows is actually, I think, something Shakespeare didn't say before.

But who knows--maybe he did.

Yes that bit he says next is pretty sick!!!

dJJ said:

EddieC said:

I do, too--mainly because that whole embryo/abortion/dire need thing that follows is actually, I think, something Shakespeare didn't say before.

But who knows--maybe he did.

My attention span prevents me from reading Shaspeare.

Did I miss out on anything important?

YES u have to really be taught to read it at school as it's not easy just to read it as it is old English......Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet....v clever stuff....you can always watch the TV adaptations but then you miss the wordplay etc etc....

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oh another good lyric is in Moonbeam Levels..

Yesterday I tried 2 write a novel but I didn't know where 2 begin
So I laid down in the grass tryin' 2 feel the world turn
Boy loses girl in a rain storm, nuclear World War III
All that's left is pain and sorrow, as far as he's concerned

and

He said he'd never keep diaries to learn from his mistakes instead he'll just repeat all the good things that he does.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

dJJ said:

My attention span prevents me from reading Shaspeare.

Did I miss out on anything important?

YES u have to really be taught to read it at school as it's not easy just to read it as it is old English......Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet....v clever stuff....you can always watch the TV adaptations but then you miss the wordplay etc etc....

[Edited 2/21/13 13:47pm]

yes .... u have to understand shakespears wordsplay its like reading latin....

u have to learnt all tht from school to understand shakespear work... drama

l done shakespear acting / drama at school and it was fun ... fun....

hes right shakespears and latin its not easy to understand if u read classics books to understand...

even films may help if u dont like reading classics books...

but u need to watch the right shakespear films to understand ...

ADONIA said:

TheFreakerFantastic said:

YES u have to really be taught to read it at school as it's not easy just to read it as it is old English......Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet....v clever stuff....you can always watch the TV adaptations but then you miss the wordplay etc etc....

[Edited 2/21/13 13:47pm]

yes .... u have to understand shakespears wordsplay its like reading latin....

u have to learnt all tht from school to understand shakespear work... drama

l done shakespear acting / drama at school and it was fun ... fun....

hes right shakespears and latin its not easy to understand if u read classics books to understand...

even films may help if u dont like reading classics books...

but u need to watch the right shakespear films to understand ...

Adonia,

Did you ever read my signature?

dJJ said:

EddieC said:

I do, too--mainly because that whole embryo/abortion/dire need thing that follows is actually, I think, something Shakespeare didn't say before.

But who knows--maybe he did.

My attention span prevents me from reading Shaspeare.

Did I miss out on anything important?

Yes. But who hasn't? I actually suspect he might very well have said something fairly close--there are some seriously weird thought processes in the minds of Elizabethan writers, and in as many words as Shakespeare wrote. Seriously, he might have said it. At least as a miscarriage if not an intentional abortion.

I have read your sig, by the way. And realized you were being ironic.

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some people tell me I've got great legs

Does not compute,does not compute

dJJ said:

ADONIA said:

yes .... u have to understand shakespears wordsplay its like reading latin....

u have to learnt all tht from school to understand shakespear work... drama

l done shakespear acting / drama at school and it was fun ... fun....

hes right shakespears and latin its not easy to understand if u read classics books to understand...

even films may help if u dont like reading classics books...

but u need to watch the right shakespear films to understand ...

Adonia,

Did you ever read my signature?

yes l did as a matter of fact

sorry dear l posted there instead

but u can read the link there ....

dJJ said:

ADONIA said:

yes .... u have to understand shakespears wordsplay its like reading latin....

u have to learnt all tht from school to understand shakespear work... drama

l done shakespear acting / drama at school and it was fun ... fun....

hes right shakespears and latin its not easy to understand if u read classics books to understand...

even films may help if u dont like reading classics books...

but u need to watch the right shakespear films to understand ...

Adonia,

Did you ever read my signature?

heres your signature lve read ....................

lve signed mine for u ok

ADONIA said:

dJJ said:

Adonia,

Did you ever read my signature?

heres your signature lve read ....................

lve signed mine for u ok

"How can you just leave me standing?

Alone in a world so cold

Maybe I'm just too demanding?

Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold?

Maybe you're just like my mother?

She's never satisfied

This is what it sounds like when doves cry"

Not only Prince's peak, both lyrically and musically, but also the absolute zenith of popular music in the rock era IMO.

Prince is my favorite musician, but I don't feel like he's a consistently great lyricist. (Overall, this isn't that big a deal for me, as I care much more about music than lyrics. I got into music through my father, who, like Prince's dad, was a semi-professional jazz musician... so that probably has a lot to do with how I process it.)

It's pretty weird to hear the same guy who wrote the lines copied above sing about the theocratic order or not eating funky, funky blue cheese (or even something like "Ronnie Talk to Russia" or "Graffiti Bridge" ... not trying to just mention his recent stuff, as he's always been an inconsistent lyricist IMO).

However, along with some low points, Prince certainly has had his great moments as a lyricist, and I feel like everything about WDC is just about perfect. "The Beautiful Ones" also has some great lyrics (and music), and "Sign O' the Times" is pretty awesome as well (even though I'm not crazy about the pot as a gateway drug concept). "I Hate U" is another of my favorites, along with the original version of "Old Friends for Sale," and I'm sure I could think of more songs if I really spent time wracking my brain and/or looking up lyrics.

LewArcher said:

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Prince is my favorite musician, but I don't feel like he's a consistently great lyricist.

It's pretty weird to hear the same guy who wrote the lines copied above sing about the theocratic order or not eating funky, funky blue cheese (or even something like "Ronnie Talk to Russia" or "Graffiti Bridge" ... not trying to just mention his recent stuff, as he's always been an inconsistent lyricist IMO).\

Oh no, he's definitely not consistently great--in fact (as you said in a part of your post I failed to keep), he's really inconsistent even within a single song. Great lines are jammed right up against terrible ones in lots of songs. And people just feel differently about lines--some people don't like the "touch if you will my stomach... you've got the butterflies all tied up" section." And how you react to the whole structure of "Dig if you will," "Dream if you can," "touch if you will" can vary. I've seen people attack this song for being "pseudo-poetry" or the like.

Sometimes he does things like the "red meat, white fish or funky funky blue cheese." and I just can't figure out what he's doing. It's clearly not an accident that he's using the red, white, and blue of the American flag--but why? Just because as an American the colors flow together almost automatically? Or is he trying to make some point with it--is he intentionally associating the consumption of animal products with American culture or patriotism or something of that sort. Is he rejecting something about American culture along with the rejection of animal products? What's going on? He almost certainly is doing something, I just don't know what.

I like the "Animal Kingdom," by the way, in spite of lines about people lining up around the block to get milk from a particular pair of breasts--how does that follow at all? It makes no sense to me.

One of the strangest, but still one of my favourites.

I'm going to give you the brush and you are going to paint the side of the train.

If God one day struck me blind, your beauty i'd still see. Loves too weak to define just what you mean to me.

what the hell does this mean "The opposite of NATO is Otan". How is that profound? Or is that the poster trying to be clever?

can someone please explain?

apologies! i should have read all the comments

Here knock yourself out, there's plenty here......

http://prince.org/msg/7/45076

I dont deal in psychobabble, just facts.

In the world of diplomacy, and government to government affairs the international languages used are English and French. NATO is the English acronym and OTAN is the French acronym of the same organistaion.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord

...but hey choose whatever interpretation that rocks your boat.

goodfella said:

apologies! i should have read all the comments

Here knock yourself out, there's plenty here......

http://prince.org/msg/7/45076

I dont deal in psychobabble, just facts.

In the world of diplomacy, and government to government affairs the international languages used are English and French. NATO is the English acronym and OTAN is the French acronym of the same organistaion.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord

...but hey choose whatever interpretation that rocks your boat.

Oh, yeah--there's that too. So--let's see. We live in a world where international affairs are conducted in such a way that people can reverse what they say and it mean the same. Or that people can be talking about the same thing and saying completely opposite things. Or maybe, just maybe we should be thinking about another line from back in the 80's:

N-A-T-O. Spell that shit backwards, what's it say?

Same motherfucking shit.

Man, this is getting better all the time.

Of course, that doesn't account for Prince's saying "monotheism" when performing the song live.

Not a fave, but been thinking about it lately. Unexpected depth here to me from Papa: "How come I don't love my woman... then he took aim and died...."

This chair goes round and round, I feel like a clown
Cuz I'm stripped down, It's all fun and games
Til the very next day, til, damn, u don't remember my name
Maybe I'll see u next Thursday night, maybe I won't
But that's alright, cuz in my possession, there's a signed confession
that says, I was the best u ever had.

Fonkyman said:

This chair goes round and round, I feel like a clown
Cuz I'm stripped down, It's all fun and games
Til the very next day, til, damn, u don't remember my name
Maybe I'll see u next Thursday night, maybe I won't
But that's alright, cuz in my possession, there's a signed confession
that says, I was the best u ever had.

DUDE, that's crazy! I was just thinking about that lyric the other day. Thanks for posting a more "full" version, but that 'punchline' above is some good ish!

Like a splendid, open-ended, celibate friend pretending

Not 2 know it when I blow it in your eyes

Like a strawberry, chocolate, fender jazz, mashed potato fuzztone

All over your thighs, oh baby

That's the only come I know when I'm deep inside that... yeah!

That's the only time, the only time U go

"Ooh baby, U're so good"

"Ooh baby, U're so good"

Aw, shut up! This is just so U.

Best P. Lyrics ever.

SoulAlive said: