So many songs to choose, but what do think the best prince songs are lyrically?

Here is mine..

1. When Doves Cry

2. Joy in repetition

3. Adore

4. Purple Rain

5. If I was your girlfriend

i like your list. i would add...

the ballad of dorothy parker

computer blue

condition of the heart

little red corvette

empty room

i wonder

My Top 20 songs as far as most deep lyrically to me is:

1. Purple Rain

2. Still Would Stand all Time

3. Controversy

4. When Doves Cry

5. Sign O' The Times

6. Pope

7. How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore

8. The Question of U

9. I Hate U

10. My Name is Prince

11. Hello

12. My Computer

13. Emancipation

14. Dreamer

15. Little Red Corvette

16. Colonized Mind

17. Act of God

18. Sometimes it Snows in April

19. Planet Earth

20. Last December

I've always felt he's been terribly underrated in this department:

1. Most of Parade - spare Do U Lie and I Wonder U
2. Ballad of Dorothy Parker
3. Little red Corvette - the jockey and horse references are so bizarre yet cleverly executed
4. If I Was Your Girlfriend
5. All of Lovesexy
6. Joy in Repetition
7. 7
8. Solo - effectively descriptive look at a deep depression
9. Hello

10. Power Fantastic

Probably at least 2 dozen or so more but this is just off the top of my head.

Top 5

Open Book

If I was your girlfriend

Time Waits 4 no one

Sign of the times

TheTruth

hmmm

Adore

Space

Strange Reltionship

If I Was Ur Girlfriend

Call My Name

F/L/S/M/W

17 DAYS

How Come U Dont Call Me

Bob George

Future Soul Song

Nasty Girl

Erotic City

A Love Bizzare

God

The Love We Make

Come On

Paisley Park

Sometimes It Snows In April

Beautiful Strange

Days Of Wild

Love

3121

Musicology

Head

The Truth

The Word

The Otherside Of The Pillow

Willing and Able

The Holy River

Everywere

Song Of The Heart

I Wish U Heaven 12"

17 Days

Adore

I Love U in Me

It's not one of my favourite P songs but I do like the lyrics of Forever In My Life