really getting strange now...

What Do U Want Me 2 Do?

Eye c U picked me out from the crowd
Could it b the way Eye play guitar?
Master of the soft, not 2 loud
1 day, maybe Eye will b a star
Eye c U picked me out like U want something
But shame on U, baby, can't U c this ring?

CHORUS:
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?

Eye got a woman, U got a man
So we got 2 do what's right
Eye said U'd get beheaded in other lands
If Eye were in your arms 2night
Quit tryin' 2 get me under that icy plunder
Boy, oh boy, what a scare, ooh

CHORUS

U picked me out of the crowd
And ooh, just so bold and so proud
And dressed like U want everybody 2 just say, "Wow!
Didn't her mama teach her better?"
Ow, dressed like that, somebody gon' get her

Eye c U picked me out from the crowd
Could it b the way Eye play guitar?
Master of the soft, not 2 loud
Eye don't ever really wanna b where U r, where U r, no

What do U want me 2 do, girl?
Tell me, what do U want me 2 do, babe?
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
Tell me, tell me, what do U want me 2 do, babe?
I ain't tryin' 2 do that
What do U want me 2 do, girl?

What's so strange?
There are countries where women are routinely executed for such "crimes" as adultery.

http://www.prince.org/msg/105/98584

In some countries in Africa, women's genitals are mutilated regularly after they are forced to marry.
Its all very sad.

Well, it's an unfortuante coincidence, but obviously not related to what the lyric was about.

Universaluv said:

Im basically saying that the line in the song was Prince commenting on how women are killed and abused in other countries for whats done regularly here. That's all

thekidsgirl said:

That's very true. I actually worked on that issue for the U.S. govt. a lifetime ago and little progress has been made.

Still, I wasn't responding to you. I was responding to the author of this thread, CNNBREAKINGNEWS and the comparison of the lyric to today's news regarding the beheading of an American hostage.


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[This message was edited Fri Jun 18 14:24:56 2004 by Universaluv]

Only Prince and his genius could put this in a track!

thekidsgirl said:

Alice Walker wrote a very good book about that.

bananacologne said:

Interestingly enough, that's been a recurring theme in a lot of her novels (including "The Color Purple"), leading up to the non-fiction book she wrote on the subject, which I believe was called "Warrior Marks" - if memory serves, she also did a documentary that went along with the book.

Women are also stoned for adultery, in other countries... here in America it is just juicy gossip.

I thought the book Possessing the Secret of Joy was the one Alice Walker did on female genital mutilation???