OldFriends4Sale said:

this is sweet and beautiful

OldFriends4Sale said:

thank u for sharing these beautiful pixs...........

how love supposed to be

for the song its one of my favs SONG

love 7 so much ....

when 2 people who loved each other so much

and they wouldnt let anyone gets in their way

until they smoke them all down

2 conquer their love to all...

with saviore-faire

ADONIA said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

thank u for sharing these beautiful pixs...........

how love supposed to be

for the song its one of my favs SONG

love 7 so much ....

when 2 people who loved each other so much

and they wouldnt let anyone gets in their way

until they smoke them all down

2 conquer their love to all...

with saviore-faire

I do like this set of photos, there are few more i should post

OldFriends4Sale said:

very nice..

Plot

The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Mayte's father by seven unknown assailants. Mayte believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Mayte, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7").

Upon the seventh day of the sixth month
Nineteen hundred and ninety-three
Marking the beginning and ending of cycles of creation
Prince, reaching the balance of thirty-five years,
Put into practice the precepts of perfection:
Voicing bliss through the freedom of being one's self
Incarnating the New Power Generation into
The close of the six periods of involution giving
Birth upon himself to regenerate his name as (the Love Symbol)
For in the dawn, all will require no speakable name
To differentiate the ineffible one that shall remain.

Asfaik, the vid director was an Australian woman. I think the vid was shot or Ben song partly recorded while he was in Oz in 92 but could b wrong there since most of the album was already done and he performed lots of it on stage.

The test-tube was part of the stage show (d&p? It was what he brought downunder). It was a parliament style space-age entry and exit - ludicrous and awesome at the same time. The gun-mike was all over the stage already - also awesome and ludicrous.
If you think the two things can't co-exist then I don't see how you can be a Prince fan. Prince constantly confuses as to whether he's being sincerely absurd or ironically outlandish. He takes George Clinton's over-the-top eccentricity and puts a possibly serious face on it. Which is off-putting and intriguing. Is his tongue in his cheek, poking out, or begging to be taken seriously? You don't ask Bootsy, GC or even Flava Flav what they mean by their weirdness co it's clearly for its own sake. With P, you're never sure... (And mayb he isn't either)

And in that vein, stop thinking that the lyrics and imagery can refer to only o ne thing...