All of my purple life , I've been lookin' 4 a dame

Erotic City

Wow!! You guys came up with some gems! That is why I fell in love with Prince, he is such a poet!!! No one on this planet writes lyrics like that man. Here are some of my favs, although they aren't all opening lyrics.

"If I was your girlfriend would you remember to tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man..."


"Lady cab driver can you take me for a ride, I don't know where I'm going cuz I don't know where I've been."

Various lyrics:

From "Anna Stesia" - "Gregory looks just like a ghost and then a beautiful girl the most who wets her lips to say, we could live for a little while if you could just learn to smile, you and I could fly away..."

From "Joy In Repetition" - "The song was a year long and had been playing 4 months when he walked into the place"

From "The Ballad of Dororthy Parker" - "...I ordered, yeah let me get a fruit cocktail I ain't too hungry, Dorothy laughed, she said sounds like a real man to me, wanna take a bath, I said cool but I'm leaving my pants cuz I'm kinda going with someone... (Does it get any better than that?!!!)

I could go on and on but I'll stop here.

bellanoche said:

Not much. That's a cool ass song.

JassyGF said:

yep JAssyGF...it catches you right away. and let's you know
he's ready to GET down!

a couple i thought of:

"called you yesterday didn't answer your phone
main drag is knowing that you're probably no alone"

from 17 days the musical intro (the kick of the drums)
leads into the above couplet which kinda lets U know
p is at home "depressed and about to cry" cuz he's been
waiting 17 days for his baby!"

love the whole atmopheric set up...

how about the OPening to NO CALL U?
or this one:

"have you ever been so lonely that U felt like U were
the only one in this world?

"have U ever wanted 2 play with someone so much U'd
take anyone boy or girl?"

2 serious questions that open up the majestic
ANNA STESIA

the piano intro,this couplet all the way till the
GOD is love coda...what a wonderfully crafted song!

i also like the opening lines to:
let's pretend we're married...

(great minds think alike)

SynthiaRose said:

another cool one are the opening verses (questions)
from IF I WERE YOUR GIRLFRIEND.

The first time i heard the lyrics i said to myself...what
kinda s**t is he saying! then when i got further on in
the song i got what was going on and said...DAMN,what a
hip,cool tune...how come i never asked a ladyfriend this?

every time i play this one i smile.
particularly in the coda when he's talking to his lady
(the last line is PRICELESS!)

the linn drum rhythm is like a heartbeat...slays me which
each play.

s-rose...superb topic. i'm jealous. wish i had thought of
it! (seriously good job sr..youngca...)

divo wrote:

It's a tie between every song on Xpectation and N.E.W.S.


Now you're just trying to be shocking. It's a sickness if you really believe that.

i guess i shoulda known by the way u parked your car sideways that it wouldnt last...


the start of an extremely long, fast and thrilling ride.

classic Prince and the Revolution

How beautiful do the words have 2 be
before they conquer every heart?

I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow
I never meant 2 cause u any pain.

In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name
by chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same.

Open your heart open your mind
A train is leaving all day
A wonderful trip through our time
And laughter is all u pay

In a word or 2, it's u I wanna do
No, not cha body, yo mind u fool.

muleFunk said:

i mean, hello! how obvious is that line? i love it.

Stand up everybody, this is your life!

i was dreaming when i wrote this.

Spoken:(James Earl Jones voice)

I knew from the start
that I loved you with all my heart
But you were untrue
you had another lover she looked just like you

There's so many songs, I don't know where to begin, but here goes:

"Whoever said that elephants are stronger than mules?"
from "Paisley Park"


Not an opening, but one of the coolest lyrics ever...

and,

"Prince? Ain't that a bitch! That skinny muthafucka with the high voice??!!"

and,

"What if I called you silly names, just like the one's that you call me?"

and,

"Lemme tell you what I did...I took another bubble bath, with my pants on, all the fighting stopped, next time I'll do it sooner..."

and,

"She had the cutest ass he ever seen, and he did too they were meant to be..."

Finally,

"Some people tell I got great legs, can't figure out why you make me beg...some people think I'm kinda cute, but that don't compute when it comes to Y-O-U..." (that entire song is brilliantly written).

LOL71

"Sunset in the west this morning, I know, I know LA is calling. Bad news Steve says, and people are talking. They say your kingdom is falling. "

classic.

"Using a special code he accessed his mind in search of the reason why. In passionate fashion he began travelling time..."

Or

"Did you get the tape I sent you? Thought it'd be better in a song. Better than the used condom you sent me. Baby...that was wrong!"

"here we are,in this big old rented room"

This one gets me every time!!

FreeChild said:

And all this time I thought it was "here we are in this big ol' empty room."

More fool me, huh?

FreeChild said:

RENTED? I thought it was EMPTY room. All these years I been using the wrong line!

Bow down motherfucker, surrender your rod.

i wuz workin part time in a five and dime.

SynthiaRose said:

2 faves off of ONA piano

That's my favorite time with u just after we make a movie the kind that requires the title Parental Advisory.

not an opening line but...
Can I offer you baklave or a bagel wlith cream cheese will we say grace to our father holding hands down on r knees

She was dark, she was tan
She made me glad to be a man

Joshy said:

AMEN!!! :WORSHIP:

How many times have u dialed my number wishing I was somebody else?

Baby you've gotta be from a differant world because just 1 look from u could make an army surrender

I was dreamin' when I wrote this,
4give me if it goes astray
But when I woke up this mornin'
I coulda sworn it was judgment day

no there is a heaven
no there is a hell
listen 2 me people
've got a story 2 tell

KNOW U GOT A YOUNG MAN
U DON'T CARE ABOUT THE 1 THAT'S BEEN AROUND
MATTER OF FACT U GOT THIS CLUB IN A TIZZY THINKIN'
U WAS RATHER PARTIAL 2 MY HIGH-PITCHED SOUND

Acknowledge Me
don't taunt me anymore
I was here in the beginning
And I'll be here 4evermore