For all th e seasonal emotionally damaged

I can play it in summer and it's still a jammin song but with the cold air and the hyolidays in the air it is jussst right!

The extended versions the best.. nothing less

i never never ever play "another lonely christmas" anytime before december. it stays dormant till the 1st of december and gets played sparingly throughout the holiday season.

just a couple mo' weeks before i start playin it...can't wait

I think this song is one of his top ten vocals or higher..the passion and or anguish in it makes my gut hurt..I was upset whe he revelaed that the story was fiction..I mean Ive always known in the back of my head that he didnt know anyone who died on Xmas or Xmas eve etc but he ddint have to say it lol

"oh baby! last night..I spent another lonely lonely" is the best part
[This message was edited Mon Nov 10 19:48:04 PST 2003 by rdhull]

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I used 2 play it every Christmas morning! I won't be playing it this Christmas though!

Sdldawn said:

no doubt nothing less

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

You're depriving yourself

bananacologne said:

u wont be lonely? cool

rdhull said:

on the contrary--i do that so it doesn't take away from the poignancy of the song; if i were to play it year-round, by year's end i wouldn't wanna hear it at all. 'sides, it's a helluva lot better than the usual sugar-coated dreck you hear on the airwaves durin x-mas...matter of fact, kmoj here in mpls played it once last december (not the unedited version, tho' ). i wuz all like !!!

rdhull said:

i don't hear what you;'ve said!!this is a true story,ya' hear???i feel it when i luisten to this!! maybe prince murdered a girl in his youth and hid it and gota away with it.he was consumed with guilt,but couldn't turn himself in.so,he wrote a song and said she died a different way.something happened.i refuse to believe this is fictional.

I think Britney should do a cover of this with Slash on guitar.

rockwilder said:

rdhull said:

Word!

I love it year round!!! I remember I got the 12" of I would die 4 U on X-mas day from my neighbor as a gift.. That was the first time I heard it!



Another Lonely Xmas




Last night I spent another lonely Christmas
Darling, darling, u should've been there
Cuz all the 1s I dream about
U are the 1 that makes my love shout
U see, u are the only 1 I care 4

Remember the time we swam naked
In your father's pool?
Boy he was upset that night
But boy was that ever cool

Remember the night we played pokeno 4 money
And u robbed me blind
Remember how u used 2 scream so loud
Cuz u hated that number 9

Hey, I saw your sister skating on the lake
This afternoon
Good Heaven how she's grown
She swoons the boy skaters she's so tall

But of all your father's children
All your father's children, baby
U know, u are the finest of them all
U are brighter than the northern star

Last night I spent another lonely Christmas
Darling, darling, u, u should've been there
U see, of all the 1s I dream about
U are the 1 that makes my love shout
U see, u are the only 1 I care 4
Yeah

My momma used 2 say
Always trust your lover
Now I guess that only applies 2 her

Cuz baby u promised me
Baby u promised me u'd never leave
Then u died on the 25th day of December
Oh baby

Last night I spent another lonely, lonely Christmas
Darling, baby, u, u should've been there
Cuz all the 1s I dream about
U are the 1 that makes my love shout
U see, u are the only 1 I care 4
Yeah

Your father said it was pnemonia
Your mother said it was strep
But the doctor said u were dead
And I, I say its senseless

Every Christmas night 4 7 years now
I drink banana daquaris 'til I'm blind
As long as I can hear u smilin' baby
U won't hear my tears
Another lonely Christmas is mine
Yeah, mine
Yeah
Another lonely Christmas is mine

Last night, yeah, I spent another lonely, lonely Christmas
Darling, darling, u should've been there, yeah
Cuz all the 1's I dream about
U are the 1 that makes my love shout
U see, u are the only 1 I care 4

i love this song WAY TOO much to only listen to it in December. Any version, all year long.

No way would I ever tire of this song. Play it all the time.

The radio station here plays it every year.

rockwilder said:

Wonderful mad banter.

Number23 said:

Ice9?

PEJ said:

I have this 12 inch and I believe this was a poster..they at least had this pic in his Rolling Stone summer 1984 Prince Scores issue

great song


for some reason they always play this song on the radio right after that one Wham! christmas song

rdhull said:

Is this the picture which prince refers to in holy river. "xan still see the picture upon the wall". I always think its this one to which he is refering.

howcomeudontcallme said:

why do you think this is the pic? I know which line you mean..

PEJ said:

lol I know right--that aint the pic he is referring to in Holy River..just because he's supposedly starin at nothin at all etc lol...

rdhull said:

lol he stares at nothing at all in 75% of his pics... on another note I think this pic was from the 12" single with Let's Go Crazy UK version but I could be wrong... any experts feel free to correct me!

I never related this song as a christmas song per say, I just thought it was a song about a girl who died unfornately died on Christmast day and not really a holiday song. It's 2 sad 2 be a Christmast song . So I just listen 2 it all yr round .

sad edit
[This message was edited Thu Nov 13 10:07:25 PST 2003 by DigitalLisa]

DigitalLisa said:

Isn't it a day after chrstmas song... last night, I spent another lonely x-mas

PEJ said:

true

PEJ said:

PEJ said:

It has little to do with him 'staring at nothing at all'. I never said that this was the picture he was refering to, only that i felt it was. He looks so lonely, he's number 1 at the bank at the time this picture was released, he could pretty much have what or who he wanted. The season refered to in the song 'another lonely xmas' on goes to further exemplify his loneliness. Now the holy river is about a man who has finally gotten what he has wanted, a woman who he truly loved and who loved him. Thats why the picture stands in my mind as the one refered to in the holy river. Those tears aint fake in that picture in my opinion. so very vulnerable