Just pure poetry?

As of today I'm going with "Sometimes It Snows in April."

Y'all?

Power Fantastic

Solo

I love U in me.

rdhull said:

Power Fantastic

Im going with that too..

WIthout the Music it easily stands alone but there is Poetry in ALL his Lyrics

really...

BillieBalloon said:

For me WDC reads like poetry.

Definately.

Toofunkyinhere said:

BillieBalloon said:

For me WDC reads like poetry.

Definately.

Co sign...

lets just read again...

Dig if you will the picture
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can you my darling
Can you picture this?

Dream if you can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (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 (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (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 (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (A world that's so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding (Maybe, maybe I'm like my father)
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold (Ya know he's too bold)
Maybe you're just like my mother (Maybe you're just like my mother)
She's never satisfied (She's never, never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other (Why do we scream, why)
This is what it sounds like

When doves cry

Toofunkyinhere said:

Agree with the previous selections, especially WDC and Power Fantastic (and PoomPoom ). I would add Condition of the Heart!

WDC is the obvious one. Also In a Large Room with No Light and The Love We Make.

I would say Adonis & Bathsheba as far as outtakes are concerned and with released songs, Joy In Repitition but these two are just off the top of my head. Ask me tomorrow and the answer could be totally different. But that's the great thing about Prince, his standards were incredibly high (at least when he WANTED to be poetic).

[Edited 4/16/17 12:45pm]

The Grand Progression

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[Edited 4/16/17 19:09pm]

Adore and The Love We Make, but losts of them actually.

fourletterwords said:

Joy in Repetition. Just the sound of the language. Sign o the times. Beautiful economy of language. wDC. A poem and short story in one. Holy a River/Love U Make Gold Condition of the Heart Even single lines like: I strangled Valentino/you been mine ever since/if anybody asks you/you belong to Prince.... Genius A hugely underrated lyricist. Sadly, marginalized as writing only about lust....

Indeed.

POETRY
Joy in Repetion

the question of u

When I lay my hands on u...

There is lonely (he expresses how shame makes loneliness infinitely worse with just two lines)

Sign of the Times

When Doves Cry

Beautiful Strange

Way Back HOme

Breakdown

Paisley Park

7

Future Soul song

Money Don't Matter tonight

Grand Progression

The Love We make

in a large room with no night

Revelation

STORY TELLING SET TO RHYME
--I could never take the place of your man!!!!

--Shy

--Ballad of Dorothy Parker

--Raspberry Beret

[Edited 4/23/17 16:12pm]

[Edited 4/23/17 16:14pm]

fourletterwords said:

/gimme back the time you can keep the memories... Chills

that line alone is some cold shit poetry

rdhull said:

fourletterwords said:

/gimme back the time you can keep the memories... Chills

that line alone is some cold shit poetry

Indeed.

Until the end of time
I'll be there for you
You own my heart and mind
I truly adore you
If God one day stroke me blind
Your beauty I'd still see
Love is to weak to define
Just what you mean to me

purpleprime said:

I agree with those mentioned above (especially Adore, J in R, I Love u but I don't trust u). I was listening to Screams of Passion today.... wow...those lyrics r beautiful... especially the line "a robin sings a masterpiece that lives and dies unheard...for screams of passion".... that's beautiful!!

Here r the lyrics...quite exquisite!!

There's a gentle autumn breeze that blows
Whenever we be lyin', lyin' in my bed
The moon appears and disappears, you look at me
My clothes I quickly, I quickly shed

The curtains dance a minuet
Autumn plays the music, baby
Come on, hold my hand
Leaves are fallin' velvet splash

Only you and I can under, only you can understand
The sunlight draws a picture through the silky lace
That hangs above your, hangs above your door
A picture that is waving that it seems
To be with every thrust you make me beg for more

Oh, a robin sings a masterpiece
That lives and dies unheard
For screams of passion
A sound produced by to in love
Curtains dance and autumn plays on
(Oh, to in love, on and on)

The screams of passion
All I hear in my head echoing like a volcano, baby
The screams of passion
Back and forth the raging seas of lust, I want you madly
Can't you tell, can't you tell, can't you tell, can't you tell? Oww

Take me in your arms, oh baby
The crime is done, I'd rather die here in your
Screams of passion, whoa, hold me now, baby
Tell me that you love me
Is it Sunday or is it passion?

Love, love
(The screams of passion)
The screams of passion, yeah, yeah, love
The screams of, the screams of
The screams of passion, passion
Hand me that love

Yeah
(Shh, not so loud baby)
Yeah
(Shh, shh)
The screams of passion
The screams of passion

Oh, oh, oh, the screams of passion
Ooh, the screams of, the screams of
The screams of passion, the screams of passion
Back and forth the raging seas of lust

Raging, raging
(The screams of passion)
You know I want you madly, baby
Why can't you tell? Oww
Is is it Sunday?
(Ooh love, ooh love)

I thought I heard a church bell
(Or was it passion, passion?)
Yeah, yeah
(Ooh)
Passion, the screams of passion

What did you say, baby?
Excuse me but is that your passion?
Do you want my passion?
Uh, do you want my passion?

If you want my love, if you want my body, baby
Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let
Uh, let me hear ya scream, I want some passion

Ooh, you know what I'm talkin' about baby?
Ooh, I want some passion
You got that baby? I want some passion, passion, mmm

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