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Reply #90 posted 12/01/03 3:02pm

Marrk

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LolaM said:

The Love We Make

Desperate is the day that is 2morrow
4 those who do not know the time has come
2 whip the dogs that beg, steal or borrow
From the table God set 4 His Son

Wicked is the witch that stands 4 nothing
All the while watching 2 see U fall
Deeper than the ditch that bred your suffering
The one being dug right now by them all

Happy is the way 2 meet your burdens
No matter how heavy or dark the day
Pity on those with no hope 4 2morrow
It's never as bad as it seems until we say

Precious is the baby with a mother
That tells him that his Saviour is coming soon
All that believe will cleanse and purify themselves
Put down the needle, put down the spoon {x2}

Sacred is the prayer that asks 4 nothing, oh
While seeking 2 give thanks 4 every breath we take, oh
Blessed are we inside this prayer
4 in the new world, we will be there

The only love there is, is the love we make {x2}
(The only love there is, is the love we make)
Only love there is, only love there is
The only love there is, is the love we make (Yeah)
The only love there is, is the love we make

© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP

I love this song at the moment. In the CD booklet it says "written for a lost friend". Does anyone know who this is??


Jonathon Melvoin (Wendy's Brother?).I think he played on Around the World In A Day.
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Reply #91 posted 12/01/03 9:02pm

AnimalKingdom

If you're always with me --- you never have to call me.
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Reply #92 posted 12/02/03 2:03am

andyf

Marrk said:

What are your favourite Prince lyrics? (examples of his writing greatness)
I try not to have favourites, but I'll tell what I like and I'll tell you why:

Love mefrom "Joy in Repetition". Repeat those words again and again and you get me love, me love, me love as well as love me, love me, love me. Genius. The union between man and woman and between god and god-woman. Genius, I'll say it again.

andy
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"Someone who makes you laugh when you wanna cry"
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Reply #93 posted 12/02/03 2:26am

Rayray17

"Your ass is like a fine cut diamond, mounted on 2 legs of stone. In jail I would spend some time,in if I ever get that ass alone." music
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Reply #94 posted 12/02/03 7:50am

LolaM

Marrk said:

LolaM said:

The Love We Make

Desperate is the day that is 2morrow
4 those who do not know the time has come
2 whip the dogs that beg, steal or borrow
From the table God set 4 His Son

Wicked is the witch that stands 4 nothing
All the while watching 2 see U fall
Deeper than the ditch that bred your suffering
The one being dug right now by them all

Happy is the way 2 meet your burdens
No matter how heavy or dark the day
Pity on those with no hope 4 2morrow
It's never as bad as it seems until we say

Precious is the baby with a mother
That tells him that his Saviour is coming soon
All that believe will cleanse and purify themselves
Put down the needle, put down the spoon {x2}

Sacred is the prayer that asks 4 nothing, oh
While seeking 2 give thanks 4 every breath we take, oh
Blessed are we inside this prayer
4 in the new world, we will be there

The only love there is, is the love we make {x2}
(The only love there is, is the love we make)
Only love there is, only love there is
The only love there is, is the love we make (Yeah)
The only love there is, is the love we make

© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP

I love this song at the moment. In the CD booklet it says "written for a lost friend". Does anyone know who this is??


Jonathon Melvoin (Wendy's Brother?).I think he played on Around the World In A Day.


Thanks for the info
I'll leave graffiti where you've never been kissed
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Reply #95 posted 12/02/03 11:55am

phunkadelic

I think Prince's most hartbreaking line is from sometimes it snows in april:

Sometimes it snows in april
Sometimes I feel so bad
Sometimes I wish Life was never ending
And all those things they say never last
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Reply #96 posted 12/02/03 12:54pm

pandemonium

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There are some clever people in this room tonight. It's great to see, that even if we dig the same musician we like different parts of his geniality.

I like For You:

All of this and more is for you
with love, sincerity and deepest care
my life with you i share.

This was written 25 years ago, and he hasn't broken his word to us.

I also love this part from shy (actually i love the whole song).

I shot the boy - pop pop - twice in the head.
I'll have another glass of you.
this time on the rocks.
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Reply #97 posted 12/02/03 12:56pm

pandemonium

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NWF said:

Just off the top of my head:

"I wanna give good love to someone & get good love in return..", from "Somebody's Somebody"


Somebody's somebody wasn't written by Prince.
I'll have another glass of you.
this time on the rocks.
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Reply #98 posted 12/03/03 5:04am

StarfishandLat
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Boy is lonely on a burning hot summer night
he's looking 4 some action, he's looking 4 a fight
he's looking 4 a saviour in a city full of fools
maybe he just needs a good talker to give him a good talking 2.
Can we talk baby? Strip down, strip down.
I think I'm gonna fall in love tonight.

Elephants and flowers, hot sweaty light paints a picture red and gold
on a crowd of naked bodies stripped down to their very souls
how can he find a shy angel in a city so bold (so bold)
he can't even find a place 2 dance, this is rock and roll.
Strip down, strip down, elephants and flowers
Is everybody ready? Here we go.

love the one who is love, (love) the one who gives us the power, (power)
the one who made everything, (what?) elephants and flowers (what will he do?)
the one who will listen when all others will not.
there will be peace 4 those who love god a lot.

Elephants and flowers. Strip down. Think I'm gonna fall in love tonight.
When I do, there won't be no more (confusion)
There won't be no more (no tears)
there won't be no more enemies, so that eliminates all the fear
and there won't be no sorrow, (sorrow)
there won't be no pain, (no pain)
there won't be no ball and no chain
strip down, strip down. Elephants and flowers.

Boy is lonely on a burning hot summer night
He's looking 4 an angel to hold him 'til the morning light
Here we go.

love the one who is love, (well) the one who gives us the power, (power)
the one who made everything, (everything) elephants and flowers (oh, yeah)
the one who will listen when all others will not. (all others will not)
there will be peace 4 those who love god a lot.
Here we go.

love the one who is love, (love) the one who gives us the power, (power)
the one who made everything, (what?) elephants and flowers (what will he do?)
the one who will listen when all others will not.
there will be peace 4 those who love god a lot.
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Reply #99 posted 12/03/03 11:41am

BKOOLBABY

The lyrics from Still Would Stand All Time
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Reply #100 posted 12/03/03 2:05pm

CHAOSMAN87

im gonna have to say darling nikki just because it was taboo to sing about masturbation and sex when prince wrote it.
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Reply #101 posted 12/03/03 2:52pm

Sly

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i love you but i don't trust you anymore?
"London, i've adopted a name that has no pronounciation.... is that cool with you?"

"YEAH!!!"

"Yeah, well then fuck those other fools!"
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Reply #102 posted 12/03/03 4:39pm

seduction747

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Come. Closer.
Feel what U've been dyin' 4
Don't be afraid, baby
Touch it and explode
Understand, understand that I love U
But more than that - I want U
Everybody always told me
"Good things come 2 those who wait"
But I've got so much on the menu
I just can't wait, I just can't, I can't wait baby
I can't wait baby
I can wrap my legs around U girl
Cuz sugar, U know U're just the kind of lover
That I've been looking 4
2 night why don't we skip all the 4 play, mamma
And just get down here on the floor

Scandalous
I'm talkin' about U and me
Marvelous - baby, baby, can't U see
Anything U've ever dreamed of
I'm willing 2 be
2 night it's gonna be scandalous
Cuz 2 night I'm gonna be your fantasy

My dearest, my dearest

(Whisper) Whisper a question
With my body (body) I'll scream a reply
Anything's acceptable
Just ask me and I'll try it
2 hell with hesitation
2 hell with the reasons why

Scandalous
I'm talkin' about U and me
Marvelous - baby, baby, can't U see
Anything U've ever dreamed of
I'm willing 2 be
2 night it's gonna be scandalous
Cuz 2 night I'm gonna be your fantasy

Baby, baby, baby

Oh girl, the things U make me do!
Genius is the only way 2 describe U
Anything U've ever dreamed of baby
Just ask me - I'll do, I'll do,
I'll do it 4 U baby

Anything at all
Spirits rise and spirits fall
Anything U ever dreamed off, I'm willing 2 be
2 night is gonna be scandalous
Cuz 2 night I'm, 2 night I'm gonna be your fantasy!

Scandalous
I'm talkin' about U and me
Marvelous - baby, baby, can't U see
Anything U've ever dreamed of
I'm willing 2 be
2 night it's gonna be scandalous
Cuz 2 night I'm gonna be your fantasy

I love the haunting sound of this song
What am I supposed 2 do when the President can't get nothin' passed?
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Reply #103 posted 12/03/03 5:25pm

TonyC

You guys have made some great selections...amazing all the INCREDIBLE work Prince has done. It is just mind-blowing that one man did all this. Anyway, here's a personal fave:

"
G-G-Gimme the beat now!
(Face the music) {repeat sample in song}
Lead line

If the air's a little thick in this room 2night
I reckon it's the result from an onslaught of separatist rookies
Overcome by this colorful sight
Talkin' so fast that even they
Talkin' so fast that even they don't know what they mean
Of all the things 2 base a rhyme
How is it that U every time regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?
Thank God this ain't Monopoly
U'd make us all go back 2 start

CHORUS:
Race in the space I mark human
Race - face the music
We all bones when we dead
Race in the space I mark human
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red, I gotcha!

Check it
Three seats over there's a lady black
Entrusted 2 her care is a little white girl
And the fact of the matter is
Before her mama or another kid at school
Tell her 'bout the fallacy that one race rules over the other
She'd be a much-better-off-left fool
If we never heard about the evils that those before us committed
Then how my dear, tell me now how my dear…
Tell me now how now would we know?
And th-th-the band say…

Down, down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
And all this BS propagandi
Keepin' U from me and me from U as we grow
I don't wanna know (I don't wanna know)
Why those before us hated each other
I'd rather believe they never did
I'd rather believe (I'd rather, I'd rather believe)
That there's hope 4 a kid
And if he imitates the best
I guess that's what I'll try 2 be
And I'ma let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea

Race
Face the music {x2}

Race in the space I mark human
Race - face the music
We all bones when we dead
Race in the space I mark human
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red
Get it? (Race)
Got it! (Race)

Face the music
(Race) {repeat}
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Reply #104 posted 12/25/03 1:09am

pussy

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Damn u, u're so fine. seems 2 happen 2 me each and every time...touched

Thinking about U driving me crazy
My friends all say it's just a phase, but ooh-ooh
Every day is a yellow day
I'm blinded by the daisies in your yard flower

I imagine myself inside your bedroom
Oh I imagine myself in your sky
(U) U are the reason there's bass in my boom
(Oh u) U are the reason I'm high love2

Everybody always told me
"Good things come 2 those who wait"
But I've got so much on the menu
I just can't wait, I just can't, I can't wait baby
I can't wait baby bawl

JOY IN REPETITION touched
IT AIN'T ABOUT THE TRIPPIN' BUT THE SEXUALITY, TURN IT UP!!!
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Reply #105 posted 12/25/03 1:32pm

4nowneway

Baby, Baby, Baby, whats it gonna be? Baby,Baby, Baby, is it him, or is it me?
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