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Prophet 60091, this is the flight number of our galactic sun.
Prophet 60091, before we start you should know that you're not the only one who can hurt me.

SH10151, this is the serial number of our orbital gun.
SH10151, you better be sure before you leave me for another one, you can hurt me.
I can hurt you.
You can hurt.
You can hurt me.
I can hurt you.
But you better be sure before you leave me for another one, I can hurt you.
You can hurt me.
But you better be sure before you leave me for another one...



Lyrics submitted by Ice

Track duration: 04:44

"2 Wicky" as written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Raymond Geerts, Alex Maria Johan Callier

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CASA DAVID LP, EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:The main riff is sampled from a cover by Isaac Hayes of "Walk On By", a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David. In that song the major overtone is love lost/broken heart. I think the references to the Prophet-600 and SH-10151 in the Hooverphonic version are just shut outs to how the Isaac Hayes track was recorded, capturing one of the most soulful rifts ever and expanding on it with galactic imagery, both songs are wonderful
    Flag QMojoon May 09, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:The main riff is sampled from a cover by Isaac Hayes of "Walk On By", a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David. In that song the major overtone is love lost/broken heart. I think the references to the Prophet-600 and SH-10151 in the Hooverphonic version are just shut outs to how the Isaac Hayes track was recorded, capturing one of the most soulful rifts ever and expanding on it with galactic imagery, both songs are wonderful
    Flag QMojoon May 09, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:It refers to the Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 and Roland SH-101 synthesizers , both awesome vintage analog synths ! Hearing a a beautiful girl sing about synths is pretty amazing ;-)
    Flagged DeeDub303on October 08, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Prophet 6 is probably the synth they used to record this. The first 100 synths that go into production are usually labelled with a number, so when she says, "Prophet 6 0091," that means they have the 91st Prophet six to be produced-- which is a very "fly number," if you are a fan of vintage synthesizers. Synths also have serial numbers-- SH10151 could very well be the serial number of the selfsame instrument, or possibly another instrument they used to make the song.

    I think the little romantic part probably has nothing to do with that. But maybe she is saying she could damage her synthesizer before she resells it to someone else. And maybe she produced a sound that hurt her ears. Just a humorous guess.
    Flagged Boldstandardon September 09, 2011   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation:I love this song.

    At first, I thought it was about a woman that's getting romantically involved with with a man she just met, and was expressing her fears about getting burned in this very new relationship.

    I was just now googling for SH10151 to see what that's about, and someone created a t-shirt with a orbital gun and the serial number. (zazzle.com/…)

    That made me wonder if this song is about Mutual Assured Destruction.

    Prophet 60091: could be a flight number for a space rocket that is going to fire the orbital gun into orbit.


    "Before we start you should know that you're not the only one"
    She's a country or ambassador and is about to start some kind of defence treaty meeting. Other parties to the meeting have powerful weapons.

    "Who can hurt me"
    But wants to show weakness, and that will be willing to make concessions for the treaty to work.

    "SH10151, This is the serial number of our orbital gun"
    could be referring to a powerful devastating weapon, and other parties are aware of the destructive power of it.


    "You better be sure before you leave me for another one"
    If the other parties in the treaty want to abandon it, they really better be ready for the consequences.... because.....


    "You can hurt me
    I can hurt you
    You can hurt me" -- the consequences will be MAD (mutually assured destruction).

    Flag srdjanon February 12, 2011   Link
  • +3
    My Interpretation:they could be referring to the prophet-600 and the sh-101 synthesizers. makes sense because these synths have a lot of knobs - wicky wicky!
    Flag topason February 07, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Such a hot song.
    Flag altf4on June 11, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Um, if 60091 was discovered in '99, then this song has nothing to do with that discovery. This song was recorded 4 years earlier.
    Flag propMasteron October 02, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Child--

    I agree with the first part about the sun and its relationship to the man. I think that's a really cool interpretation of the song.

    I don't know about the gun. Maybe "orbital gun" is just a metonymy for a spaceship...
    Flag AlairaKasimeron September 30, 2008   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:I think there's some deep meaning beyond these words and numbers.

    "This is the flight number of our galactic sun
    Prophet 60091
    Before we start you should know that you're not the only one"

    Sun is always being compared to something unique, one and only and in this song it's just being described as something with a serial number, something usual, something there's plenty of around. And a man who this song as addressed to, is compared to Sun, he's unique, he's great, but that doesn't mean he's one of the kind. There are others. And hence "before we start you should know that you're not the only one", even Sun is not the only one.

    "This is the serial number of our orbital gun
    SH10151
    You better be sure before you leave me for another one"
    Not sure, but maybe she kinda threatens with a gun and reads its serial number in order to make him believe she really has a gun and really will shoot him if he would leave her for another one
    Flag Child of Venuson August 06, 2008   Link

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