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Subject: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: GUEST,ASLIII Date: 18 Oct 02 - 02:17 PM Anyone know what "Purple Rain" represents in lyrics- "Horse Eith No Name" and song by Prince- symbolic of what, or just a rhyme?? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: GUEST,ASLIII Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:05 PM Whoops- Ventura Highway, NOT Horse With No Name |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Murray MacLeod Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:45 PM My suspicion is that in both songs "purple rain" has some drug-oriented connotation. But exactly what that connotation might be I have no idea. Murray |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:45 PM I don't think the lyrics in Purple Rain mean much at all, but that it was a case of Prince trying to emulate Jimi Hendrix and create a sixties-like anthem. As for Ventura Highway...well, that's more of a "mood" song than anything else, I'd say. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: GUEST,Taliesn Date: 18 Oct 02 - 05:28 PM Now ofcourse this comes under the heading of speculation with extreme artistic license ,but I remember "Purple Rain" being a reference to Prince the Purple one's "tears" for whatever reasons he implies. Well my.my my., the tears of a Purple Prince . How ever did we recover. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 18 Oct 02 - 05:55 PM So this is what it sounds like.... When doves cry... ,-) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Sorcha Date: 18 Oct 02 - 09:38 PM Maybe it means that the artist formerly known as Prince was stoned out of his mind...........lyrics make no sense at all to me. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: khandu Date: 18 Oct 02 - 09:54 PM It was orginally titled, "Purple Flurp". k |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 18 Oct 02 - 10:39 PM Purple Rain - refers to PCP - (a.k.a. Horse Tranquilizer - used in veterinary medicine) nasty stuff to come down from - when folk indulge in violent erratic behavior with incredible STRENGTH (so much so, they can break their own bones) in confrontations with the police, this has frequently been the culprit. Purple Haze - is from the Hendrix song by the same name. It is in reference to LSD.
Purple Haze all in my brain, Allen Ginsberg in the 50's HOWL laid the prophecy for the 60's and 70's.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed
Sincerely, |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: rangeroger Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:37 AM Gee,Greg, I always thought Purple Haze was Grape Mace. rr |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Clinton Hammond Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:42 PM I somehow don't think Prince as much of a PCP dude... I could be wrong... Purple Rain... I think it's just poetry... it's a pretty cool image... especially for bubblegum pop.... I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow I never meant 2 cause u any pain I only wanted 2 one time see u laughing I only wanted 2 see u laughing in the purple rain Seems pretty straight-forward to me... But then agin, I'm the guy who was confused by the lyrics to Dirty Old Town, so what the hell do I know about anything... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:57 PM Good quote, Gargoyle. The diversion of the counterculture's energies into drug use was the biggest mistake the counterculture ever made. I opposed it at the time, but I was just one nonconformist amongst a horde of monkeey-see/monkey-do longhaired pot smokers who were trying to be hip and cool. One of the few people I ever heard of at the time who saw it the way I did was Joan Baez. Hurrah for Joan! - LH |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Purple Rain'- what does it mean? From: GUEST,Fred Miller Date: 19 Oct 02 - 06:43 PM I thought it meant he needed another color thing to go with his raspberry beret and red corvet and such stuff. I'm waiting for him t write Beige Filing Cabinet. |
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