post some PRINCE lyrics here that you don't understand (stand under...the spelling ), and let the fellow orgers help you out !

i start:

I don't care for trolley cars that juggle 17 from TAMBOURINE

no comprendo !

dawntreader said:

One interpretation previously suggested:

I don't care for a one night stand with someone who has a considerable number of lovers at the same time.

"I don't care 4 one night stands with trolley cars that juggle 17
I just wanna settle down and play around my baby's tamborine "

Seems to make some sense.

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[This message was edited Sun Sep 14 13:21:40 PDT 2003 by langebleu]

dawntreader said:

"I don't care for one night stands with trolly cars that juggle 17."

He doesn't want an easy slut.

LOL

who is next ?

Here's one I've never been able to understand:

"Annie Christain, Anti-Christ,
Until you're crucified, I'll live my life in taxi cabs"

What???

lovebizzare said:

i think prince is sayin' he doesn't want to get shot, like lennon and reagan and the black children in atlanta. he cites annie christian (as in "anti-christian") as the culprit responsible for the violence.

here's one i don't get:
from days of wild - "and if a woman ever said i did, she's a m.f. liar and i'm a set-up kid..."
huh?

The previous lyric goes 'A woman everyday should be thanked, not disrespected, not raped or spanked.'
Therefore Prince is obviously saying he would never commit these acts on a lady himself.

fms said:

The 'I'll live my life in taxi cabs' bit means he daren't walk the streets. No?

Yes.

Jamademus said:[quote]fms said:[quote]

lovebizzare said:

I think that it's a reference to the movie "Taxi Driver".

fms said:

also a very interesting point is that Satanist ritual sacrifice was and still is today suspected of several of the atlanta child killings maybe P also suspected the anti Christ.

Jamademus said:

I brought up something like this last year (to little fan-fare). On his next album he was with lady cabdriver, then he again takes refuge in a cab between joint 2 joint and the holy river. They seem to represent safety and protection from the outside world to him.
any other cab refrences from thruouthis cannon?(maybe this should be a new thread here)

Like the best Poets a lot of Prince's lyrics are things that can be intuitivly understood, but do not make any sense literally
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lovebizzare said:

until the "anti-Christ" is "crucified", he'll not be
a standing target, on the move, etc.etc.

Great thread dawntreader!

Here's one that's always got me... I know he explained to Oprah that Let's Go Crazy meant to make a connection with God and that the Elevator was the devil... but what with this line...

'Let's look 4 the purple banana until they put us in the trunk'

... do what before they put us in the back of the morgue vehicle??? Purple banana what??? Someone help me out please...

PS - This is a cool thread.
[This message was edited Sun Sep 14 22:57:23 PDT 2003 by 1nonly]

1nonly said:

if you're looking for a "purple" banana - you must be crazy sooo the looney catcher (kinda like a dog catcher) will put you in his TRUCK and take your ass to the ward . . . where you're crazy ass belongs

What would y'all say is meant by "Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me"?

Let's try...basically THE WHOLE NEWPOWERSOUL album? What kind of shit is that all about? Worst lyrics he's written.

lovebizzare said:

First thing I wanna say is (mandate my ass!), Dawntreader, this is a great thread

The above lyric to me, loveb:

Christ was crucified and allegorically the opposite may happen. Taxi cabs signify the travelling through life. Somebody else is driving our magic maestro until the time is right for him to be who he really is. Watch out for the signs Seems like Prince is waiting (for the DAwn? Good things come to those who wait?) until "the time has come...", as he wrote in TRC

Or maybe I'm nuts, huh

"Life is very short, and there's no tiiime for fussing and fighting my friend(s)" do check out Stevie Wonder's version of this Beatles song.

AnimalKingdom said:

ah thanks !

AnimalKingdom said:

ah thanks ! (AndyF too)

Crystal Ball...the entire song...what the fuck?

especially the part when he's asking his xpert lover if she's ever had a crystal ball?

TheResistor said:

Someone suggested to me that a trolleycar is a sexual position, ie fingercuffs. dont know if it was true and i was shocked she knew that!

1nonly said:

he DID?! i musta missed that part with Oprah...anyone else miss that?

CapedCrusader said:

Tis true, my friend. He said that at the time the song was released it was not very commercial to sing about God so he had to use metaphors to mean making a contact with god and avoiding the devil. It was at that time that he told Oprah that 'going crazy' meant making a connection with God and the Elevator -- "Are we gonna let the elevator break us down, oh no let's go...let's go crazy. Let's get nuts."

TRANSLATION -- Are we gonna let the devil bring us down. Choose the better option, choose God.

How about the song "Mountains"?

What are the mountains?? I know the "devil told you that another mountain would appear everytime somebody broke your heart". "But I say it's only mountains and the sea..."

Is Prince saying the mountains really don't mean anything???

From Pearls B4 The Swine...

"Never curse in front of children
Unless they die of older age"

...or something like that...

I REALLY don't understand that part!