bonatoc said:

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

Empress said:

bonatoc said:

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

Oh come on! Use your imagination.

Disgusting practices come to mind.

EddieC said:

The Gregory-the-ghost Gregory-his-son thing is pretty creepy

1) I agree with the 'moonbeam levels' reference.. what does that even mean?

2) Anotherloverholenyohead... You need another lover like you need a hole in your head.. I never got that AT ALL even after searching it up. I have a feeling its' weird name/chorus is the reason it bombed on the US charts

CharismaDove said:

The Gregory-the-ghost Gregory-his-son thing is pretty creepy

1) I agree with the 'moonbeam levels' reference.. what does that even mean?

2) Anotherloverholenyohead... You need another lover like you need a hole in your head.. I never got that AT ALL even after searching it up. I have a feeling its' weird name/chorus is the reason it bombed on the US charts

"You need ____ like you need a hole in you head" is a very common idiom in my experience--it just means you don't need it at all. I knew it just as "like you need a hole in your head"--my wife seems to think it usually includes the word another as "like you need another hole in your head." What the chorus means is he's all she needs, so why's she running around looking for someone else?

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One of my favorite jokes (admittedly a sick one) as a kid was based on the phrase:

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So Abraham Lincoln said to his wife after a hard day in the Oval Office: Mary, I need to go to a play tonight like I need a hole in the head."

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EddieC said:

CharismaDove said:

The Gregory-the-ghost Gregory-his-son thing is pretty creepy

1) I agree with the 'moonbeam levels' reference.. what does that even mean?

2) Anotherloverholenyohead... You need another lover like you need a hole in your head.. I never got that AT ALL even after searching it up. I have a feeling its' weird name/chorus is the reason it bombed on the US charts

"You need ____ like you need a hole in you head" is a very common idiom in my experience--it just means you don't need it at all. I knew it just as "like you need a hole in your head"--my wife seems to think it usually includes the word another as "like you need another hole in your head." What the chorus means is he's all she needs, so why's she running around looking for someone else?

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One of my favorite jokes (admittedly a sick one) as a kid was based on the phrase:

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So Abraham Lincoln said to his wife after a hard day in the Oval Office: Mary, I need to go to a play tonight like I need a hole in the head."

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No, the quote says "another hole in your head". We normally have seven: two for the eyes, two for the ears, two for the nostrils, and one for the mouth. So the phrase basically means, you have enough, why do you need more?

klick2me said:

"Heavy feather, flick a nipple, baby scram, water ripple (I don't understand. That means I love u)" - Glam Slam

It's a non-sensical line meant to make the recipient of said line say, "I don't understand"...which means 'I love u'.

Prince, that tricky mynx!

robertgeorgeakabob said:

KlyphIsBackAgain said:

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".

The rays of the moon aligned towards earth like a stairway to escape the darkness. A celestial stairway. Pretty much what you said.

I'm totally good with that.

I symbolic stairway to heaven...which would be a better place to die. In context of the song, almost sounds like a plea for heaven to take him as the world is very crazy to him...

1nonly said:

EddieC said:

"You need ____ like you need a hole in you head" is a very common idiom in my experience--it just means you don't need it at all. I knew it just as "like you need a hole in your head"--my wife seems to think it usually includes the word another as "like you need another hole in your head." What the chorus means is he's all she needs, so why's she running around looking for someone else?

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One of my favorite jokes (admittedly a sick one) as a kid was based on the phrase:

.

So Abraham Lincoln said to his wife after a hard day in the Oval Office: Mary, I need to go to a play tonight like I need a hole in the head."

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No, the quote says "another hole in your head". We normally have seven: two for the eyes, two for the ears, two for the nostrils, and one for the mouth. So the phrase basically means, you have enough, why do you need more?

Yep, as I noted my wife knew it with the "another"--however, I knew it primarily without the "another". Yes, everybody has the holes you describe--but if you say a body is found with a hole in the head, you're not going to think it's one of those.

Averett said:

From 3X2=6:

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

I've always thought that it means....a prostitute ("working girl") doesn't have to tolerate a mailman's (a pimp) tricks....yeah,I know my interpretation is outrageous (lol)

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

This is so easy to understand if you are African American. Prince is saying that to be light skinned, in his mind, is cool if you are older, however, if you are a dark skinned African American male with a chocolate banana, the women want you more sexually and not the "yellow" banana. The "blacker the berry, sweeter the juice" mindset. Prince felt like the girls, perhaps when he was younger, desired the "dark" banana more than his "yellow" banana. Also remember, Prince wanted to be handsome and tall like his brother in another song...his brother Dwayne? or His brother Andre Cymone? This lyric does make perfect sense. I understood exactly what Sheila was saying when I first heard the lyric. It literally is a "black" thang!!! But once again, Prince knows what he is trying to say even if we don't.

[Edited 4/17/15 2:58am]

Empress said:

bonatoc said:

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

Oh come on! Use your imagination.

I have no imagination but I'm cute if that helps