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Back to our boy Scottie. He's on twitter right now..retweeting this Baron3121 guy's tweets about Prince giving crap to bad sound engineers and telling them how to fix the sound while on stage.. and Scottie is answering questions. There are some interesting factoids. But what is also abundantly clear is that Scottie thinks (and is being told) that he is a better engineer than pretty much anyone who ever worked for Prince. LOL. I do recall him giving P some sh!t for calling out engineers (saying it was unprofessional and uncomfortable--which is not totally wrong) but now he is somewhat blaming the engineers and reminding everyone that P would call HIM immediately after tours or shows with bad sound...LOL. He is a bit of a hypocrite about that kind of thing. About a month ago, someone asked him on Twitter who John was (an engineer who Prince called out by his first name for bad sound). Instead of saying "I don't want to call out another sound engineer", he answered with the guy's last name. Dude is something.



I think Scottie more than likely, has a tiny penis.
 

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Or a musician who had not been wearing ear protection for 30 years might have been on the road to hearing loss.


In a couple of photos from the investigation, there were boxes for ear wax removal and for tinnitus relief. Be hard to find any professional musician who didn't have some form of hearing loss or damage. Flea from RHCP has talked about how he lives with tinnitus everyday from years of performing.
 

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That's what I was thinking, too. But we really don't know. I also thought maybe he didn't want AA to hear it since he talked a lot about Denise. lol. Or maybe he just felt the sound or show wasn't good enough.
Are you being serious? We're talking about someone who had an almost pathological fear of coming across as genuinely vulnerable in their music. Look at the erasing of the first version of Wally.

It's why Way Back Home shocked the hell out of me when I first heard it. It seemed heartfelt in an extremely resonant way - very much a Prince I hadn't really heard before. I really hoped for an album where Prince allowed himself to be similarly open throughout.
 

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Are you being serious? We're talking about someone who had an almost pathological fear of coming across as genuinely vulnerable in their music. Look at the erasing of the first version of Wally.

It's why Way Back Home shocked the hell out of me when I first heard it. It seemed heartfelt in an extremely resonant way - very much a Prince I hadn't really heard before. I really hoped for an album where Prince allowed himself to be similarly open throughout.
Brothers just do not do vulnerable. I also think Wally probably sucked ass.
 

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It was written for the film. Prince said that in the Ebony article
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He said it was written for Vanity, as she had left the film. So your correction is meant to convey that his music is robotic, unemotional, and invulnerable? Remind me why you are a fan?
 

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Are you being serious? We're talking about someone who had an almost pathological fear of coming across as genuinely vulnerable in their music. Look at the erasing of the first version of Wally.

It's why Way Back Home shocked the hell out of me when I first heard it. It seemed heartfelt in an extremely resonant way - very much a Prince I hadn't really heard before. I really hoped for an album where Prince allowed himself to be similarly open throughout.

So he was vulnerable then sometimes - through his music. I think it was more his words he wanted to keep private, but only when it came to women.
Maybe he said more than he wanted to about Denise that night.
 

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He said it was written for Vanity, as she had left the film. So your correction is meant to convey that his music is robotic, unemotional, and invulnerable? Remind me why you are a fan?

What the fµck are you going on about? The song was written for the movie and Vanity was going to play a part in the film. He said this shut Susannah down who kept saying the song was about her. I am not sure what any of this has to do with being robotic, unemotional, and invulnerable? He was playing a part in a movie.

Let me school you if a black man in America walks around with his heart on his sleeve he will be eaten alive. I am sure he was not raised to be vulnerable and I am sure he also wanted to keep a private life.

Remember other people were telling the press about Prince's personal relationships he kept his mouth closed because it was none of our business.
 

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What the fµck are you going on about? The song was written for the movie and Vanity was going to play a part in the film. He said this shut Susannah down who kept saying the song was about her. I am not sure what any of this has to do with being robotic, unemotional, and invulnerable? He was playing a part in a movie.

Let me school you if a black man in America walks around with his heart on his sleeve he will be eaten alive. I am sure he was not raised to be vulnerable and I am sure he also wanted to keep a private life.

Remember other people were telling the press about Prince's personal relationships he kept his mouth closed because it was none of our business.
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'The movie' was about his relationship with Vanity -- she left in the end, and he wrote "The beautiful ones you always seem to lose; U were so hard to find, The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime"

Here's a bit of education... a few snippets.

"Yeah, he's one of America's greatest poets."
-Miles on Miles, Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis

His 1st song on his 1st album was a complex a cappella layering of all his own vocals:
For You
All of this and more is for you
With love, sincerity and deepest care
My life with you I share


For You - YouTube

When Doves Cry
Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Nothing Compares 2 U
It's been 7 hours and 13 days
Since u took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since u took your love away

It's been so lonely without u here
I'm like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop this lonely rain from falling
Tell me baby, where did I go wrong?

Girl
Love this one... a Prince & Morris duet; beautiful
The Time - Girl - The Time - YouTube
Girl, I called you up to say,
That I'm havin' trouble sleepin' ever since you went away.
Girl, I know you need a little time,
To get your head together. But baby, I can't stop cryin'.

Girl, why'd you go away?
What can I say to make you stay?
Girl, I was a fool.
I don't know what to do.
I'm still in love with you.

The Cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross


Purple Rain
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing
In the purple rain
...
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end


Still Waiting
All my friends tell me
About the loves they've had
Can't they see what they're doing to me?
It makes me feel so bad
'Cause I'm so alone
And brokenhearted
It ain't like my life is ended
But more like it never started
The love my friends rap about I keep anticipating
I try so hard but don't you know, my patience is fading away, away


Still waiting
I'm waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
Waiting for the love to come around
Oh, love
Waiting for the love to come around


People say that I'm too young
Too young to fall in love
But they don't know, they really don't know
That's all that I've been dreaming of
'Cause I spend my nights just a-crying
And I spend my days just a-trying
To find that love to call my own
'Cause I'm sick and tired of being alone

Still waiting
Waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love to come around
(Waiting for the love) don't you know that I'm waiting
(Waiting for the love) say
(Waiting for the love) to come around now

I need somebody to hold on to baby
Waiting and waiting, don't you know that I'm

Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love, sugar
Still waiting
If you're out there girl, please come to me
Still waiting
Don't make me cry no more
Still waiting
If you're out there, baby, please come to me
Still waiting
Wishing and wishing for days, baby
Still waiting
For this world to stop hating


When We're Dancing Close and Slow
When we're dancing close and slow
I never want to let you go, no, no
I feel your warm embrace
The softness of your face
Tell me, baby, are we here alone?

When we're kissing long and hard
I can almost taste the thoughts within your mind
xes-related fantasy is all that my mind can see
Baby, that's honestly the way I feel

When we're dancing close and slow
I'm not afraid to let my feelings show
I want to come inside of you
I want to hold you when we're through
Can't you feel my love touching you?

Gotta Broken Heart Again
Ah, yeah
It doesn't matter what I do
I can't stop, ah, thinking about you
The little things you said
The things you do to me in bed
Oh baby, I can't get you outta my head
Oh, oh, gotta broken heart again, yeah
This time it's serious
It feels just like the end
'Cause once your love has gone away
There ain't nothing, nothing left to say

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again (Live At The Aladdin, Las Vegas, 12/15/2002) - YouTube

Somewhere Here on Earth
I know you're out there
I can feel your eyes on me
Seen that face a thousand times
If only in my dreams

I know you really want me
I can feel your hands on me
I really wanna touch you too
In a way I'm much too shy to speak
PRINCE SOMEWHERE HERE ON EARTH LIVE ON JAY LENO - YouTube

I Wish U Heaven
Doubts of our conviction
Follow where we go
And when the world's compassion
Ceases still I know
4 your every touch I
Thank U so much
4 your every kiss I...

I wish U love
I wish U heaven
I wish U heaven
 

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You've posted mainly cliched lyrics there.

My point still stands. Hence why Way Back Home stood out in terms of resonance.
 

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Had U

Comeback


June

Breakdown

These are some of the songs that resonate with me. Not clichéd as far as I can tell- if the metric is emotional honesty and openness.

Prince didn’t have to sit in a public confessional in order to express vulnerability to the degree others seem to think he should smh.

His songs hit differently for everyone and are often seen through the prism of our personal experiences as well.


 
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You've posted mainly cliched lyrics there.

My point still stands. Hence why Way Back Home stood out in terms of resonance.
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Trolling couldn't be more cliche. Also wasn't responding to you.
 
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Don't be a dick. You're not the arbiter of who can respond and who can't.
 

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'The movie' was about his relationship with Vanity -- she left in the end, and he wrote "The beautiful ones you always seem to lose; U were so hard to find, The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime"

Here's a bit of education... a few snippets.

"Yeah, he's one of America's greatest poets."
-Miles on Miles, Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis

His 1st song on his 1st album was a complex a cappella layering of all his own vocals:
For You
All of this and more is for you
With love, sincerity and deepest care
My life with you I share


For You - YouTube

When Doves Cry
Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Nothing Compares 2 U
It's been 7 hours and 13 days
Since u took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since u took your love away

It's been so lonely without u here
I'm like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop this lonely rain from falling
Tell me baby, where did I go wrong?

Girl
Love this one... a Prince & Morris duet; beautiful
The Time - Girl - The Time - YouTube
Girl, I called you up to say,
That I'm havin' trouble sleepin' ever since you went away.
Girl, I know you need a little time,
To get your head together. But baby, I can't stop cryin'.

Girl, why'd you go away?
What can I say to make you stay?
Girl, I was a fool.
I don't know what to do.
I'm still in love with you.

The Cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross


Purple Rain
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing
In the purple rain
...
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end


Still Waiting
All my friends tell me
About the loves they've had
Can't they see what they're doing to me?
It makes me feel so bad
'Cause I'm so alone
And brokenhearted
It ain't like my life is ended
But more like it never started
The love my friends rap about I keep anticipating
I try so hard but don't you know, my patience is fading away, away


Still waiting
I'm waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
Waiting for the love to come around
Oh, love
Waiting for the love to come around


People say that I'm too young
Too young to fall in love
But they don't know, they really don't know
That's all that I've been dreaming of
'Cause I spend my nights just a-crying
And I spend my days just a-trying
To find that love to call my own
'Cause I'm sick and tired of being alone

Still waiting
Waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love to come around
(Waiting for the love) don't you know that I'm waiting
(Waiting for the love) say
(Waiting for the love) to come around now

I need somebody to hold on to baby
Waiting and waiting, don't you know that I'm

Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love, sugar
Still waiting
If you're out there girl, please come to me
Still waiting
Don't make me cry no more
Still waiting
If you're out there, baby, please come to me
Still waiting
Wishing and wishing for days, baby
Still waiting
For this world to stop hating


When We're Dancing Close and Slow
When we're dancing close and slow
I never want to let you go, no, no
I feel your warm embrace
The softness of your face
Tell me, baby, are we here alone?

When we're kissing long and hard
I can almost taste the thoughts within your mind
xes-related fantasy is all that my mind can see
Baby, that's honestly the way I feel

When we're dancing close and slow
I'm not afraid to let my feelings show
I want to come inside of you
I want to hold you when we're through
Can't you feel my love touching you?

Gotta Broken Heart Again
Ah, yeah
It doesn't matter what I do
I can't stop, ah, thinking about you
The little things you said
The things you do to me in bed
Oh baby, I can't get you outta my head
Oh, oh, gotta broken heart again, yeah
This time it's serious
It feels just like the end
'Cause once your love has gone away
There ain't nothing, nothing left to say

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again (Live At The Aladdin, Las Vegas, 12/15/2002) - YouTube

Somewhere Here on Earth
I know you're out there
I can feel your eyes on me
Seen that face a thousand times
If only in my dreams

I know you really want me
I can feel your hands on me
I really wanna touch you too
In a way I'm much too shy to speak
PRINCE SOMEWHERE HERE ON EARTH LIVE ON JAY LENO - YouTube

I Wish U Heaven
Doubts of our conviction
Follow where we go
And when the world's compassion
Ceases still I know
4 your every touch I
Thank U so much
4 your every kiss I...

I wish U love
I wish U heaven
I wish U heaven

Nobody ever said the relationship in the film was about him and Vanity. In fact Prince has said the movie was a work of fiction.
In fact quite a few people have said WDC was about Susan Moonise.



These are lyrics not Prince on some talk show or in People spilling his cuts.
 

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Nobody ever said the relationship in the film was about him and Vanity. In fact Prince has said the movie was a work of fiction.
In fact quite a few people have said WDC was about Susan Moonise.



These are lyrics not Prince on some talk show or in People spilling his cuts.
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Actually Prince said the film was about what he was going through in his life at the time... one of those things being his relationship with Vanity -- she was to be his girlfriend and co-star in the film, not Susan Moonsie. And of course liar/thief Apples was hired to be Vanity's stand-in after she left the film. I hope Apples is paying you well.
 
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Actually Prince said the film was about what he was going through in his life at the time... one of those things being his relationship with Vanity -- she was to be his girlfriend and co-star in the film, not Susan Moonsie. And of course liar/thief Apples was hired to be Vanity's stand-in after she left the film. I hope Apples is paying you well.

Lmao, yeah and 2/3 of the lyrics you posted were written well before or well after he ever met her. What an airtight argument.
 

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Re: hearing loss. I agree that many rock/pop musicians have sustained hearing loss. I like to watch Dan Rather interviewing well-known musicians on AXS TV; many are wearing hearing aids. Prince played music more than most and he liked it loud.
He likely had hearing loss. Hell, after my teenage years rocking to loud music, I have hearing loss in my left ear.

I vote w/the posters who felt Prince wanted that show erased as it was too vulnerable.
 

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Lmao, yeah and 2/3 of the lyrics you posted were written well before or well after he ever met her. What an airtight argument.
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Which lyrics are you referring to, and before he met whom? I am responding to Laura regarding Vanity, Purple Rain film, and the song When Doves Cry.
 
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"Let me school you if a black man in America walks around with his heart on his sleeve he will be eaten alive." - @Laurarichardson

Not sure what this has to do with Prince's lyrics... either the few that I've posted or his thousands of others.
 

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If I Was Your Girlfriend
Prince
Look at the bargains over here, ladies

If I was your girlfriend, would you remember
To hold me, you forgot when I was your man
When I was your man
If I was your best friend, would you let me
Take care of you and do all the things that only a best friend can?
Only best friends can

If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend, would you let me dress you
I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out?
Not that you're helpless
But sometime, sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about
If I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me if somebody hurt you even if that somebody was me?
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be, please!

If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend
Would you let me wash your hair?
Could I make you breakfast sometime?
Well then, could we just hang out
I mean, could we go to a movie and cry together?
'Cause to me baby, that would be so fine (That would be so fine)

(If I was your girlfriend)
Baby, can I dress you
I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out?
(If I was your girlfriend)
Listen girl, I ain't sayin you're helpless
But sometime, sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about
(Shoo-do-do)
Sugar, do you know what I'm saying to you this evening?
Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered
But I, I said I wanna be all of the things you are to me (If I was your girlfriend)
Surely, surely you can see

Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room
Just because you want to undress? (If I was your girlfriend)
We don't have to make children to make love

And we don't have to make love to have an orgasm (If I was your girlfriend)
Your body's what I'm all about
Can I see it? (If I was your girlfriend)
I'll show you
Why not? (If I was your girlfriend)

You can do it because I'm your friend
I'd do it for you
Of course I'd undress in front of you (If I was your girlfriend)
And when I'm naked what shall I do?

How can I make you see that it's cool? (If I was your girlfriend)
Can't you just trust me?
If I was your girlfriend, you could (If I was your girlfriend)
Oh yeah, I think so

Listen, for you naked I would dance a ballet (If I was your girlfriend)
Would that get you off?
Tell me what will
If I was your girlfriend, would you tell me? (If I was your girlfriend)

Would you let me see you naked then?
Would you let me give you a bath?
Would you let me tickle you so hard you'd laugh and laugh (If I was your girlfriend)

And would you, would you let me kiss you there
You know, down there where it counts
I'll do it so good, I swear I'll drink every ounce
And then I'll hold you tight and you long
And together we'll stand in silence

And we'll try to imagine what it looks lke
Yeah, we'll try to imagine what, what silence looks like
Yeah, we'll, we'll try to imagine what silence looks like
Yeah, we'll try
 

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'The movie' was about his relationship with Vanity -- she left in the end, and he wrote "The beautiful ones you always seem to lose; U were so hard to find, The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime"

Here's a bit of education... a few snippets.

"Yeah, he's one of America's greatest poets."
-Miles on Miles, Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis

His 1st song on his 1st album was a complex a cappella layering of all his own vocals:
For You
All of this and more is for you
With love, sincerity and deepest care
My life with you I share


For You - YouTube

When Doves Cry
Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Nothing Compares 2 U
It's been 7 hours and 13 days
Since u took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since u took your love away

It's been so lonely without u here
I'm like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop this lonely rain from falling
Tell me baby, where did I go wrong?

Girl
Love this one... a Prince & Morris duet; beautiful
The Time - Girl - The Time - YouTube
Girl, I called you up to say,
That I'm havin' trouble sleepin' ever since you went away.
Girl, I know you need a little time,
To get your head together. But baby, I can't stop cryin'.

Girl, why'd you go away?
What can I say to make you stay?
Girl, I was a fool.
I don't know what to do.
I'm still in love with you.

The Cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross


Purple Rain
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing
In the purple rain
...
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end


Still Waiting
All my friends tell me
About the loves they've had
Can't they see what they're doing to me?
It makes me feel so bad
'Cause I'm so alone
And brokenhearted
It ain't like my life is ended
But more like it never started
The love my friends rap about I keep anticipating
I try so hard but don't you know, my patience is fading away, away


Still waiting
I'm waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
Waiting for the love to come around
Oh, love
Waiting for the love to come around


People say that I'm too young
Too young to fall in love
But they don't know, they really don't know
That's all that I've been dreaming of
'Cause I spend my nights just a-crying
And I spend my days just a-trying
To find that love to call my own
'Cause I'm sick and tired of being alone

Still waiting
Waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love to come around
(Waiting for the love) don't you know that I'm waiting
(Waiting for the love) say
(Waiting for the love) to come around now

I need somebody to hold on to baby
Waiting and waiting, don't you know that I'm

Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love, sugar
Still waiting
If you're out there girl, please come to me
Still waiting
Don't make me cry no more
Still waiting
If you're out there, baby, please come to me
Still waiting
Wishing and wishing for days, baby
Still waiting
For this world to stop hating


When We're Dancing Close and Slow
When we're dancing close and slow
I never want to let you go, no, no
I feel your warm embrace
The softness of your face
Tell me, baby, are we here alone?

When we're kissing long and hard
I can almost taste the thoughts within your mind
xes-related fantasy is all that my mind can see
Baby, that's honestly the way I feel

When we're dancing close and slow
I'm not afraid to let my feelings show
I want to come inside of you
I want to hold you when we're through
Can't you feel my love touching you?

Gotta Broken Heart Again
Ah, yeah
It doesn't matter what I do
I can't stop, ah, thinking about you
The little things you said
The things you do to me in bed
Oh baby, I can't get you outta my head
Oh, oh, gotta broken heart again, yeah
This time it's serious
It feels just like the end
'Cause once your love has gone away
There ain't nothing, nothing left to say

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again (Live At The Aladdin, Las Vegas, 12/15/2002) - YouTube

Somewhere Here on Earth
I know you're out there
I can feel your eyes on me
Seen that face a thousand times
If only in my dreams

I know you really want me
I can feel your hands on me
I really wanna touch you too
In a way I'm much too shy to speak
PRINCE SOMEWHERE HERE ON EARTH LIVE ON JAY LENO - YouTube

I Wish U Heaven
Doubts of our conviction
Follow where we go
And when the world's compassion
Ceases still I know
4 your every touch I
Thank U so much
4 your every kiss I...

I wish U love
I wish U heaven
I wish U heaven

Nobody ever said the relationship in the film was about him and Vanity. In fact Prince has said the movie was a work of fiction.
In fact quite a few people have said WDC was about Susan Moonise.



These are lyrics not Prince on some talk show or in People spilling his cuts.
Re: hearing loss. I agree that many rock/pop musicians have sustained hearing loss. I like to watch Dan Rather interviewing well-known musicians on AXS TV; many are wearing hearing aids. Prince played music more than most and he liked it loud.
He likely had hearing loss. Hell, after my teenage years rocking to loud music, I have hearing loss in my left ear.

I vote w/the posters who felt Prince wanted that show erased as it was too vulnerable.
Being is that he was sad it was probably not a good show. I though you said he had AIDS
 

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Nobody ever said the relationship in the film was about him and Vanity. In fact Prince has said the movie was a work of fiction.
In fact quite a few people have said WDC was about Susan Moonise.



These are lyrics not Prince on some talk show or in People spilling his cuts.

Being is that he was sad it was probably not a good show. I though you said he had AIDS


You can have both. They are not mutually exclusive.
 

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You can have both. They are not mutually exclusive.
You have zero credibility here as a medical professional. First, you said that the wasting look he had only come from AIDS knowing full well that people can have a wasting look when being ill from organ failure or cancer. You also fail to realize that if he was taking so many pills as the narrative would have us believe his organs would have been damaged.
Might that make more sense then a wealthy person dying from AIDS in this day abs age
 

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You can have both. They are not mutually exclusive.
You have zero credibility here as a medical professional. First, you said that the wasting look he had only come from AIDS knowing full well that people can have a wasting look when being ill from organ failure or cancer. You also fail to realize that if he was taking so many pills as the narrative would have us believe his organs would have been damaged.
Might that make more sense then a wealthy person dying from AIDS in this day abs age
....
'The movie' was about his relationship with Vanity -- she left in the end, and he wrote "The beautiful ones you always seem to lose; U were so hard to find, The beautiful ones, they hurt you everytime"

Here's a bit of education... a few snippets.

"Yeah, he's one of America's greatest poets."
-Miles on Miles, Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis

His 1st song on his 1st album was a complex a cappella layering of all his own vocals:
For You
All of this and more is for you
With love, sincerity and deepest care
My life with you I share


For You - YouTube

When Doves Cry
Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase you
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Nothing Compares 2 U
It's been 7 hours and 13 days
Since u took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since u took your love away

It's been so lonely without u here
I'm like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop this lonely rain from falling
Tell me baby, where did I go wrong?

Girl
Love this one... a Prince & Morris duet; beautiful
The Time - Girl - The Time - YouTube
Girl, I called you up to say,
That I'm havin' trouble sleepin' ever since you went away.
Girl, I know you need a little time,
To get your head together. But baby, I can't stop cryin'.

Girl, why'd you go away?
What can I say to make you stay?
Girl, I was a fool.
I don't know what to do.
I'm still in love with you.

The Cross
Black day, stormy night
No love, no hope in sight
Don't cry, he is coming
Don't die without knowing the cross
Ghettos 2 the left of us
Flowers 2 the right
There'll be bread 4 all of us
If we can just bear the cross

Sweet song of salvation
A pregnant mother sings
She lives in starvation
Her children need all that she brings

We all have our problems
Some BIG, some are small
Soon all of our problems
Will be taken by the cross


Purple Rain
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only want to see you laughing
In the purple rain
...
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It's such a shame our friendship had to end


Still Waiting
All my friends tell me
About the loves they've had
Can't they see what they're doing to me?
It makes me feel so bad
'Cause I'm so alone
And brokenhearted
It ain't like my life is ended
But more like it never started
The love my friends rap about I keep anticipating
I try so hard but don't you know, my patience is fading away, away


Still waiting
I'm waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
Waiting for the love to come around
Oh, love
Waiting for the love to come around


People say that I'm too young
Too young to fall in love
But they don't know, they really don't know
That's all that I've been dreaming of
'Cause I spend my nights just a-crying
And I spend my days just a-trying
To find that love to call my own
'Cause I'm sick and tired of being alone

Still waiting
Waiting for that love
Still waiting
I wish on every star above
Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love to come around
(Waiting for the love) don't you know that I'm waiting
(Waiting for the love) say
(Waiting for the love) to come around now

I need somebody to hold on to baby
Waiting and waiting, don't you know that I'm

Still waiting
I'm waiting for the love, sugar
Still waiting
If you're out there girl, please come to me
Still waiting
Don't make me cry no more
Still waiting
If you're out there, baby, please come to me
Still waiting
Wishing and wishing for days, baby
Still waiting
For this world to stop hating


When We're Dancing Close and Slow
When we're dancing close and slow
I never want to let you go, no, no
I feel your warm embrace
The softness of your face
Tell me, baby, are we here alone?

When we're kissing long and hard
I can almost taste the thoughts within your mind
xes-related fantasy is all that my mind can see
Baby, that's honestly the way I feel

When we're dancing close and slow
I'm not afraid to let my feelings show
I want to come inside of you
I want to hold you when we're through
Can't you feel my love touching you?

Gotta Broken Heart Again
Ah, yeah
It doesn't matter what I do
I can't stop, ah, thinking about you
The little things you said
The things you do to me in bed
Oh baby, I can't get you outta my head
Oh, oh, gotta broken heart again, yeah
This time it's serious
It feels just like the end
'Cause once your love has gone away
There ain't nothing, nothing left to say

Prince - Gotta Broken Heart Again (Live At The Aladdin, Las Vegas, 12/15/2002) - YouTube

Somewhere Here on Earth
I know you're out there
I can feel your eyes on me
Seen that face a thousand times
If only in my dreams

I know you really want me
I can feel your hands on me
I really wanna touch you too
In a way I'm much too shy to speak
PRINCE SOMEWHERE HERE ON EARTH LIVE ON JAY LENO - YouTube

I Wish U Heaven
Doubts of our conviction
Follow where we go
And when the world's compassion
Ceases still I know
4 your every touch I
Thank U so much
4 your every kiss I...

I wish U love
I wish U heaven
I wish U heaven
—-
You posted a bunch of lyrics what does this prove?
 

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"Let me school you if a black man in America walks around with his heart on his sleeve he will be eaten alive." - @Laurarichardson

Not sure what this has to do with Prince's lyrics... either the few that I've posted or his thousands of others.
Once again taking things out of context. This was my response to people on this board repeating Susan Rogers nonsense about Prince’s fear of vulnerability.
 

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Actually Prince said the film was about what he was going through in his life at the time... one of those things being his relationship with Vanity -- she was to be his girlfriend and co-star in the film, not Susan Moonsie. And of course liar/thief Apples was hired to be Vanity's stand-in after she left the film. I hope Apples is paying you well.
Apples has not stole anything but you keep saying that and click your heels 3 times.
She was hired to do a part in a film after Vanity declined the part over money.
I am only repeating what people around said at the time. That WDC was about Susan who Prince had also dated at the same time he was dating Vanity.
 

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He said it was written for Vanity, as she had left the film. So your correction is meant to convey that his music is robotic, unemotional, and invulnerable? Remind me why you are a fan?
What fµck are you babbling about. He said in the article he wrote the song fir the film. He did not mention Vanity at all in that article and the rest is your comments not mind. That is what you think. You do realize that Prince was writing songs to sell to the public?
 

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What fµck are you babbling about. He said in the article he wrote the song fir the film. He did not mention Vanity at all in that article and the rest is your comments not mind. That is what you think. You do realize that Prince was writing songs to sell to the public?



He did mention her. Which I think you know that, and you're just looking to argue with someone who has called you out on something. That article and its details have been discussed countless times here on this forum.
 

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What fµck are you babbling about. He said in the article he wrote the song fir the film. He did not mention Vanity at all in that article and the rest is your comments not mind. That is what you think. You do realize that Prince was writing songs to sell to the public?

If you're referring to the Ebony interview that he did in 2015, then he MOST CERTAINLY mentioned Vanity/Denise!!!! He also said that the Beautiful Ones was about her!!! I know you hate her and all, but come on!
 

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He did mention her. Which I think you know that, and you're just looking to argue with someone who has called you out on something. That article and its details have been discussed countless times here on this forum.

Yes, he MOST CERTAINLY DID mention Vanity/Denise. I think @Laurarichardson must've skipped over the section where he mentioned her.
 

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He did mention her. Which I think you know that, and you're just looking to argue with someone who has called you out on something. That article and its details have been discussed countless times here on this forum.
One more time for The Beautiful Ones he was explaining that the song was written for the movie and could not have been written about old Sue.

We all know that Vanity was going to be in the film and of course the song would have been directed at her character. I honestly think that some of you are getting real-life confused with the film. Even Prince said more than once that the movie was a work of fiction.

Nobody disputes that Prince dated her and no one disputes that at some point she was a special person in his life but to elevate this woman as being some important element of his entire musical career is nuts.

I get that black women feel she has stomped on because she was a black woman by his white fans and there is a lot of truth in that but it is going too far to act like a man that had like 30 more albums and over 2,000.00 songs career hung in the balance over this women.
I know sometimes when we feel marginalized in our own lives we want to elevate people but it is not good when it goes into fantasy.

My own feeling is that they did not have a good relationship and the best thing she did was leave. He was never going to be faithful to her and we know he told some women this directly and Vanity was a fragile person due to her horrific childhood and his behavior was not helping her at all.
 

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He did mention her. Which I think you know that, and you're just looking to argue with someone who has called you out on something. That article and its details have been discussed countless times here on this forum.
One more time for The Beautiful Ones he was explaining that the song was written for the movie and could not have been written about old Sue.

We all know that Vanity was going to be in the film and of course the song would have been directed at her character. I honestly think that some of you are getting real-life confused with the film. Even Prince said more than once that the movie was a work of fiction.

Nobody disputes that Prince dated her and no one disputes that at some point she was a special person in his life but to elevate this woman as being some important element of his entire musical career is nuts.

I get that black women feel she has stomped on because she was a black woman by his white fans and there is a lot of truth in that but it is going too far to act like a man that had like 30 more albums and over 2,000.00 songs career hung in the balance over this women.
I know sometimes when we feel marginalized in our own lives we want to elevate people but it is not good when it goes into fantasy.

My own feeling is that they did not have a good relationship and the best thing she did was leave. He was never going to be faithful to her and we know he told some women this directly and Vanity was a fragile person due to her horrific childhood and his behavior was not helping her at all.
 

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