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Prince Handwritten Lyrics for 'The Ladder' Live at RR Auction - Boston - tomorrow (Tuesday 25th) - 1pm EST
Full description here: https://www.rrauction.com...fm?IN=3054
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Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Never knew it was ‘sinaplenty’ I always wrongly sung it as ‘inner planet’ |
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. The CD and LP contain lyrics. © Bart Van Hemelen
This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights. It is not authorized by Prince or the NPG Music Club. You assume all risk for your use. All rights reserved. |
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interesting the differents ways he writes the the lowercase letter "a". | |
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They usually say where the auction item came from. This one doesn't. I'm curious who put this on the auction block. Sacred is the prayer that asks 4 nothing
While seeking 2 give thanks 4 every breath we take |
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His handwriting and printing look very nice!! It's very interesting how the amount of cursive letters descrease further down the page, and there are more printed letters!!! ^-^
Very cool to see this page of lyrics!!!
~everything is a prince reference~ | |
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Naise! I wonder what was erased... | |
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Very revealing hand writing and makes the lyrics even more meaningful. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato | |
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Was Carmen Electra around when he wrote this? This song was before her I thought. Maybe he had the name On standby waiting to bestow it??? But he used it here. I wonder if he had a list of names scratched down somewhere Waiting for there physical arrival. | |
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I think he is talking about himself..living in a land where there were plenty of sin, he didnt know where he came from or where he was going. As for Electra, I have no ideal if it was before her. The ladder is in reference to "Jacob Ladder". Prince often include Biblical facts and verses in his songs. The reference to the ladder is found in the Old Testament
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It's in the garage, man.  |
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Gosh, I'd gotten SO MANY words wrong to this song. And it was one of my top 3-4 albums. 2nd line, I thought it was: "There lived a king wo didn't deserve did he." 5th line, I thougth was: "He never once said thank you, never frivilous." 6th line, "Now this king he had a subject named Malenga." And forget the whole 5th verse. I had no clue.
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computerblueextended said: Gosh, I'd gotten SO MANY words wrong to this song. And it was one of my top 3-4 albums. 2nd line, I thought it was: "There lived a king wo didn't deserve did he." 5th line, I thougth was: "He never once said thank you, never frivilous." 6th line, "Now this king he had a subject named Malenga." And forget the whole 5th verse. I had no clue.
[Edited 10/14/18 22:53pm] Glad you misheard lyrics too, i’m Not one for reading the lyrics as I prefer to absorb the music via osmosis 😁. I do sometimes check out lyrics years later and am always surprised by how much I didn’t know. His name is Bart and he ain’t funky [Edited 10/18/18 12:45pm] |
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You make a very good point. I think he made an extreme effort, to write the lyrics out, that were'nt just pop song lyrics. | |
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Hate the fact these items are being auctioned off.... these are precisely the kind of items that should be protected and kept at Paisley, on display.
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Wow. Amazing
I think he saw some of "The Future"...
