@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Baby, baby, baby
What's it gonna be?
Baby, baby, baby
Is it him or is it me?
Don't make me waste my time
Don't make me lose my mind, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Can't you stay with me tonight?
Oh baby, baby, baby
Don't my kisses please you right?
You were so hard to find
The beautiful ones, they hurt you every time
Paint a perfect picture
Bring to life a vision in one's mind
The beautiful ones
Always smash the picture
Always, every time
If I told you baby
That I was in love with you
Oh baby, baby, baby
If we got married
Would that be cool?
You make me so confused
The beautiful ones
You always seem to lose
Baby, baby
Baby (baby)
What's it gonna be baby?
Do you want him?
Or do you want me?
'Cause I want you
Said I want you
Tell me, babe
Do you want me?
I gotta know, I gotta know
Do you want me?
Baby, baby, baby, listen to me
I may not know where I'm going, babe, woo, oh yeah
I said I may not know what I need
One thing, one thing's for certain, baby
I know what I want, yeah
And if it please you, baby
Please you, baby
I'm begging down on my knees
I want you
Yes, I do
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I want you, woo
Yes, I do
What's it gonna be?
Baby, baby, baby
Is it him or is it me?
Don't make me waste my time
Don't make me lose my mind, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Can't you stay with me tonight?
Oh baby, baby, baby
Don't my kisses please you right?
You were so hard to find
The beautiful ones, they hurt you every time
Paint a perfect picture
Bring to life a vision in one's mind
The beautiful ones
Always smash the picture
Always, every time
If I told you baby
That I was in love with you
Oh baby, baby, baby
If we got married
Would that be cool?
You make me so confused
The beautiful ones
You always seem to lose
Baby, baby
Baby (baby)
What's it gonna be baby?
Do you want him?
Or do you want me?
'Cause I want you
Said I want you
Tell me, babe
Do you want me?
I gotta know, I gotta know
Do you want me?
Baby, baby, baby, listen to me
I may not know where I'm going, babe, woo, oh yeah
I said I may not know what I need
One thing, one thing's for certain, baby
I know what I want, yeah
And if it please you, baby
Please you, baby
I'm begging down on my knees
I want you
Yes, I do
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I want you, woo
Yes, I do
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The Beautiful Ones Lyrics as written by Prince Rogers Nelson
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LET ME FINISH THOSE LYRICS FOR YOU right from where you left off 2 years ago:
Said I want you tell me baby, do u want me I gotta know, I gotta know baby baby baby listen 2 me I may not know where Im goin baby Said I may not know where I'll be but one thing, One thing is for certain I know what I want, yeah and its to please yu baby, please yu baby Im beggin' down on my knee I want u Yeah I do baby baby baby I want you yes I do.
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@violectrica I think he says “I may not know where I’m going baby, I may not know what I need” but I could be wrong
The lyrics are pretty self expanitory. He wants to be with her and she can't seem to make up her mind. It's like she feels like there is something more beyond her life with him, but he's sort of tired of waiting.
It sort of applies to how the pretty people (the beautiful ones) tend to not settle right away because they play the field so long. It's hard to put in words but i'm sure you understand.
This is my favorite Prince song that so many don't even think about. It's from Purple Rain and I will forever remember him laying on the stage singin'/belting the last part of the song. Thanks for adding those violectrica. What an incredible song!
oh gosh. this song's so pretty :)
Well said sixedheart
This is really an underrated song and it's grown on me from when this album/move were released. The lines that resonate me with are: "the beautiful ones will hurt you every time"-especially with unrequited love "If I told you baby....that I was in love with you"-there's a sweetness in telling the object of your affection how you feel about them.
Honestly, I think this is a fantastic song telling of love rising to the surface where the person has to tell the object of their affection how they feel about them.
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I think the whole thing's a metaphor myself. I've heard it's a Messianic song, and if it's true then it would explain a lot. The "him" is a metaphor for the material, physical world; the "me" is whatever god you may believe in. The "beautiful ones" are materialistic, vain, shallow, and so forth. The narrator believes this woman he's talking to is above those kinds of people and is too good for any of them. I don't know, maybe it is just a love song, but when taken into that context the ending's much too epic. By the way, this may seem like some right-wing conservative fundamentalist shooting off, but I'm not that way, though I'm far from a materialist either. I rest somewhere in between the two. Regardless of what it's about, it's my favorite Prince song, if just for that ending.