1nonly said:

Plain and simply what the heck does "Please send all your moonbeam levels to me" mean?

Now THAT one!?? Who the fuck knows!!! I always took it as like a "stairway" type metaphor, something relating to getting into the sky/heaven/another planet for "a better place to die".

1nonly said:

Plain and simply what the heck does "Please send all your moonbeam levels to me" mean?

That's what I wanna know!

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

1nonly said:

Plain and simply what the heck does "Please send all your moonbeam levels to me" mean?

Now THAT one!?? Who the fuck knows!!! I always took it as like a "stairway" type metaphor, something relating to getting into the sky/heaven/another planet for "a better place to die".

Maybe he's asking his girl, his guardian angel, (whom he just lost in 'nuclear WW III') to watch over him, shine her light to show him a way out of his dark despair (pain and sorrow) so he doesn't end his life right then and there.

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Here is another song that throws me off... Yellow:

Yellow's a happenin' color
If U're a banana
Countin' the days until U're a prune
But blue's a better color
If U're lookin' 4 a lover
2 show your pretty colors 2

This truly sounds nonsensical to me

Averett said:

Here is another song that throws me off... Yellow:

Yellow's a happenin' color
If U're a banana
Countin' the days until U're a prune
But blue's a better color
If U're lookin' 4 a lover
2 show your pretty colors 2

This truly sounds nonsensical to me

That's hilarious. Sometimes its just his whimsical way with words and a nice tune that makes the song sound good and at the end you have no idea what you just listened to, but it sure was funky.

During a cab ride I started a conversation about taxis as metaphors in Prince songs and the cab driver , who knew who Prince was but didn´t know any of the songs I talked about, listened and seemed very interested. I mentioned the end of Joint 2 Joint, of course Lady Cab Driver, and Annie Christian(I´ll live my life in taxi cabs), with taxis being a metaphor for protection from the evils in the world surrounding you outside, the taxi giving you some sort of shelter and safety and a means to get away from where you are, much like in Joint 2 Joint ("Where to ?" "Just...drive...anywhere...just drive") and of course trusting someone enough to drive you around or take you to some place you want to go, giving up control for a brief moment, i.e. the duration of the ride.

Averett said:

From Gett Off:

"Something about a little box with a
Mirror and a tongue inside"

*****************************************************

From Annie Christian:

"I'll live my life in taxicabs"

*****************************************************

From 3X2=6:

"A working girl don't have 2 tolerate the mailman's tricks"

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Lady Cab Drive(r) typo edit

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I was going to ask what the deal with Peru and keys, but I figured it out whilst typing.

It only took me 20 years!

RJOrion said:

ive also read that Anna Stesia was Prince apologizing to God for the homosexual stuff he did...not to say who is right or wrong, but the lyrics could easily be interpreted as such...i dont see how he can be singing about an E trip...sounds like he is trying to love the "right way" and the "only way" as God intended...and not just loving anyone "boy OR girl"...gregory was a ghost man, looking like a beautiful girl, wetting his lips...then Prince said, "i took a chance" etc etc...sounds like something other than gettin high.... everybody is really just guessing...unless P himself explains it

I thought that line "Gregory looks just like a ghost, and then a beautiful girl the most, wets her lips to say..." was referring to Prince being at a club or a party or Paisley Park with Gregory Brooks and Ingrid Chavez (or some other girl) while he was on E. , not necessarily a homosexual act or believing in God "the wrong way" but rather using drugs like E. instead of trusting God and Jesus.

Sounds more like a reference to what happened that night when Cat gave him that pill she got from that guy from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

forgot an "s" edit

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deebee said:

I was going to ask what the deal with Peru and keys, but I figured it out whilst typing.

It only took me 20 years!

Cocaine, right ? She ´s got more booty than Peru has cocaine?

KoolEaze said:

deebee said:

I was going to ask what the deal with Peru and keys, but I figured it out whilst typing.

It only took me 20 years!

Cocaine, right ? She ´s got more booty than Peru has cocaine?

It seems obvious now! I was thinking like keys keys, and wondering, "Are there a lot of locks there or something?"

KoolEaze said:

deebee said:

I was going to ask what the deal with Peru and keys, but I figured it out whilst typing.

It only took me 20 years!

Cocaine, right ? She ´s got more booty than Peru has cocaine?

That's a whole lotta ass!!!

deebee said:

KoolEaze said:

Cocaine, right ? She ´s got more booty than Peru has cocaine?

It seems obvious now! I was thinking like keys keys, and wondering, "Are there a lot of locks there or something?"

Probably not as many locks as in Cologne.

udo said:

It is all french to me.

That's only Boys & Girls

KoolEaze said:

During a cab ride I started a conversation about taxis as metaphors in Prince songs and the cab driver , who knew who Prince was but didn´t know any of the songs I talked about, listened and seemed very interested. I mentioned the end of Joint 2 Joint, of course Lady Cab Driver, and Annie Christian(I´ll live my life in taxi cabs), with taxis being a metaphor for protection from the evils in the world surrounding you outside, the taxi giving you some sort of shelter and safety and a means to get away from where you are, much like in Joint 2 Joint ("Where to ?" "Just...drive...anywhere...just drive") and of course trusting someone enough to drive you around or take you to some place you want to go, giving up control for a brief moment, i.e. the duration of the ride.

Averett said:

From Gett Off:

"Something about a little box with a
Mirror and a tongue inside"

*****************************************************

From Annie Christian:

"I'll live my life in taxicabs"

*****************************************************

From 3X2=6:

"A working girl don't have 2 tolerate the mailman's tricks"

[Edited 4/9/15 8:59am]

Lady Cab Drive(r) typo edit

[Edited 4/9/15 14:49pm]

I always think of city life, which is quite alienated, especially at night, and you're just having a fleeting interaction with someone you don't really know and will probably never meet again, who's not going to ask too many questions but is just there. Makes an interesting supplement to your refuge point maybe, because, perhaps the refuge is from the difficulties of relationships in your permanent, 'real' life (with lovers, etc). Sort of like the comfort of strangers.

KoolEaze said:

deebee said:

It seems obvious now! I was thinking like keys keys, and wondering, "Are there a lot of locks there or something?"

Probably not as many locks as in Cologne.

See, now, that makes sense!

funkycat00 said:

Squirrel meat.

luvsexy4all said:

makin love like surgery??? what that ?

Ow c'm'on.

It's preety obvious : This man needs an enema.

vinaysfunk said:

luvsexy4all said:

makin love like surgery??? what that ?

I do quite a bit of surgery in people's mouths and I think the analogy is very clear. You have to be deliberate and precise and take your time and use a lot of finesse. That's what make love like surgery means!

Dentists on the Org. Who'd have guessed?

I thought all orgers werer purple little elfs, just like myself.

RJOrion said:

gregory looked just like a ghost and then a beautiful girl the most...wets her lips to say.." - anna stesia

Anna Stesia always gives me the creeps since his unborn child event.
Psychic foreseeing at work?

sulls said:

1nonly said:

Plain and simply what the heck does "Please send all your moonbeam levels to me" mean?

That's what I wanna know!

Prince rule #1 : Who cares about lyrics when the music kicks ass so badly?

Averett said:

From Gett Off:

"Something about a little box with a
Mirror and a tongue inside"

That's the definitive one for me.
What the heck of a metaphor is this?

Angelsoncrack said:

RJOrion said:

i mean, the lyrics to anna stesia and Love 2 the 9s, and Insatiable make sense on the surface... the anna stesia lyrics and that line from Insatiable dont make sense from a gender perspective...but, i guess thats Prince, breaking the "rules" again ...

Anna Stesia is a play on words for 'Anasthesia'. Sometimes when he sings the 'anna stesia' part it can sound indistinguishable from 'anasthesia'. When I first heard the song I actually thought it was called 'anasthesia' but when I checked the tracklisting I obv found out that wasn't the case.

The whole track is about the 1st of December 1987, the night he took E.

Actually, while that's part of it, I think the more important part is that the name Anna Stesia/Anastasia comes from the Greek for "resurrection"--it's the word used in the New Testament. And there's nothing a certain type of preacher loves more than throwing around a few unnecessary Greek or Hebrew words--Prince heard it, and besides that sort of information is in many Bibles, and Prince has apparently been a Bible reader since well before Larry Graham's tutelage. The song is about spiritual death and rebirth into a new life. It's not about being numbed, but about coming up again from a deadening experience... the hate-fueled Black Album (his description, not mine), his emotional state at the time, possibly even the effects of his experimentation with E (if that story is true). The whole thing played out even more literally in the stage show for the tour, where Prince is shot (and killed) during Bob George and then alive again for the next number Anna Stesia, leading into the rest (the positive, "saved" part of the show).

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I heard the anasthesia thing from the beginning, but a few years later when I ran across a reference to the other word, it clicked in my head. It just makes way more sense to me--the other is too little to build the song around, really.

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RJOrion said:

ive also read that Anna Stesia was Prince apologizing to God for the homosexual stuff he did...not to say who is right or wrong, but the lyrics could easily be interpreted as such...i dont see how he can be singing about an E trip...sounds like he is trying to love the "right way" and the "only way" as God intended...and not just loving anyone "boy OR girl"...gregory was a ghost man, looking like a beautiful girl, wetting his lips...then Prince said, "i took a chance" etc etc...sounds like something other than gettin high.... everybody is really just guessing...unless P himself explains it

I don't think it's a reference to homosexuality. I think it's about making a connection to the listener's experience as well. Yes, he's talking about being "so lonely" that he'll take the physical connection without the emotional--but he's also talking about everyone who's hearing the song, some of whom would take boys, some of whom would take girls, some of whom would take boys or girls. It's the same as "Temptation," as far as the sexuality issue (which is only part of what's going on)--"you have to want it for the right reasons" or Computer Blue ("love is more important than sex")--and although he says in CB that "now [he] understand[s]," it's clearly a lesson he has to keep learning. Anyway, the whole definition of "lovesexy" as "The feeling U get when U fall in love, not with a boy or girl but with the heavens above" is at play here. Love makes sense and has real meaning only when God is involved (I'm not saying this, Prince is). I don't think it's about gender at all, just about universality of the sentiment that there must be more. He's felt it--but so have you, no matter what your sexual preferences might be.

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I'm pretty sure Gregory and the "beautiful girl" are different people. I see it as the singer/Prince) is out with a friend ("Gregory"), P sees an expression on Gregory's face, turns to see what Gregory's looking at, and BAM! there she is--the girl who is the trigger for his rebirth. If the ecstasy story is true, then the girl's Ingrid--but I don't see that the drug trip story is necessary to understand the song. It made perfect sense to me for years before I'd ever heard that story. In fact, I don't think that story affects the meaning of the song in any way.

lPoeticl said:

Averett said:

Here is another song that throws me off... Yellow:

Yellow's a happenin' color
If U're a banana
Countin' the days until U're a prune
But blue's a better color
If U're lookin' 4 a lover
2 show your pretty colors 2

This truly sounds nonsensical to me

That's hilarious. Sometimes its just his whimsical way with words and a nice tune that makes the song sound good and at the end you have no idea what you just listened to, but it sure was funky.

I don't know, man--but I do know the whole "pontificating seriousness" that she puts on to deliver those lines is absolutely hilarious. They almost seem to make sense when she's saying it.

bonatoc said:

RJOrion said:

gregory looked just like a ghost and then a beautiful girl the most...wets her lips to say.." - anna stesia

Anna Stesia always gives me the creeps since his unborn child event.
Psychic foreseeing at work?

Huh? I don't understand--oh, wait. The "Gregory" thing... because that was the name. Is that what you mean? I still don't see where it's psychic, but the later importance of the name might affect the way one hears it.

.

Or are you talking about something else?

EddieC said:

Angelsoncrack said:

Anna Stesia is a play on words for 'Anasthesia'. Sometimes when he sings the 'anna stesia' part it can sound indistinguishable from 'anasthesia'. When I first heard the song I actually thought it was called 'anasthesia' but when I checked the tracklisting I obv found out that wasn't the case.

The whole track is about the 1st of December 1987, the night he took E.

Actually, while that's part of it, I think the more important part is that the name Anna Stesia/Anastasia comes from the Greek for "resurrection"--it's the word used in the New Testament. And there's nothing a certain type of preacher loves more than throwing around a few unnecessary Greek or Hebrew words--Prince heard it, and besides that sort of information is in many Bibles, and Prince has apparently been a Bible reader since well before Larry Graham's tutelage. The song is about spiritual death and rebirth into a new life. It's not about being numbed, but about coming up again from a deadening experience... the hate-fueled Black Album (his description, not mine), his emotional state at the time, possibly even the effects of his experimentation with E (if that story is true). The whole thing played out even more literally in the stage show for the tour, where Prince is shot (and killed) during Bob George and then alive again for the next number Anna Stesia, leading into the rest (the positive, "saved" part of the show).

.

I heard the anasthesia thing from the beginning, but a few years later when I ran across a reference to the other word, it clicked in my head. It just makes way more sense to me--the other is too little to build the song around, really.

.

Wow thats really interesting! I've never looked at it like that before.

bonatoc said:

Anna Stesia always gives me the creeps since his unborn child event.
Psychic foreseeing at work?

I don't really see the connection between his son and the man in the song, I think he maybe just liked the name Gregory.

EddieC said:

bonatoc said:

Anna Stesia always gives me the creeps since his unborn child event.
Psychic foreseeing at work?

Huh? I don't understand--oh, wait. The "Gregory" thing... because that was the name. Is that what you mean? I still don't see where it's psychic, but the later importance of the name might affect the way one hears it.

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Or are you talking about something else?

No, right on.

Since you're all wearing frowns at me now, I cowardly want to state that he's probably talking about Greg Brooks...

But my theory is : Prince had, like all human beings, already thought about having offspring someday.
In Prince's psyche (meaning my perception of it), the idea of having a child in his Camille days (the Spooky Electric concept),
was out of the question, and in 1989, "still frightened" him (Vicki Waiting).

So the idea of having a child, who he would have named Gregory because he likes the name anyway,
was to him something great but still unattainable.

It comes from the fact that I always figured Gregory as a boy since 1988.
After all, "and then a beautiful girl the most", "Girls and boys love God above",
the purity of it all makes me think as all the characters being young.
A bunch of angels if you wish.

So Gregory is already an angel.
That's creepy in a good way, but still creepy if you ask me.


I dunno, maybe I listened to "Joint 2 Joint" too litterally lately