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Play in the Sunshine Lyrics
Oooh Doggies!
We wanna play in the sunshine
We wanna be free
Without the help of a Margarita or Exstacy
We wanna kick like we used 2
Sign up on the dotted line
We gonna dance every dance
Like it's gonna be the last time
We got 2 play in the sunshine
Turn all the lights up 2 10
I want 2 meet U (meet U), kiss U (kiss U),
love U (love U), and miss U (miss U)
Do it all over again, do it all over again
We gonna play in the sunshine
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
Play in the sunshine
We gonna love all our enemies
Till the gorilla falls off the wall
We're gonna rock him
We're gonna roll him
We're gonna teach him that love will make him tall (somehow)
Aah, pop goes the music
When the big white rabbit begin 2 talk
And the color green will make your best friends leave ya
It will make them do the walk
But that's cool
Cuz one day, everyday will be a yellow day
and let's play
We gonna play in the sunshine
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
play, play, play, play, play, play, play
We gonna play in the sunshine
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
(play), (play),
(play) no, (play) no, (play) no
(come on, play) no!, (play) no!, (playplayplay) Yes!
Drummer, do your thang
Drummer, drummer, do your thang
Drummer, drummer, drummer
can I get some of that?
Let's get out of here (yeah)
(lalalalalalala play, laugh in the sunshine)
we're not afraid 2 (play, laugh in the sunshine)
we are going 2
(play, laugh in the sunshine)
(play, laugh in the sunshine)
la la la
We wanna play in the sunshine
We wanna be free
Without the help of a Margarita or Exstacy
We wanna kick like we used 2
Sign up on the dotted line
We gonna dance every dance
Like it's gonna be the last time
Turn all the lights up 2 10
I want 2 meet U (meet U), kiss U (kiss U),
love U (love U), and miss U (miss U)
Do it all over again, do it all over again
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
Till the gorilla falls off the wall
We're gonna rock him
We're gonna roll him
We're gonna teach him that love will make him tall (somehow)
When the big white rabbit begin 2 talk
And the color green will make your best friends leave ya
It will make them do the walk
But that's cool
Cuz one day, everyday will be a yellow day
and let's play
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
We gonna play in the sunshine
We're gonna get over
I'm feelin' kind of lucky 2 night
I'm gonna find my 4-leaf clover
Before my life is done
Some way, some how, I'm gonna have fun
(play) no, (play) no, (play) no
(come on, play) no!, (play) no!, (playplayplay) Yes!
Drummer, drummer, do your thang
Drummer, drummer, drummer
can I get some of that?
(lalalalalalala play, laugh in the sunshine)
we're not afraid 2 (play, laugh in the sunshine)
we are going 2
(play, laugh in the sunshine)
(play, laugh in the sunshine)
la la la
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Lyrically this is pretty much exactly like 1999. Just a song about wanting to forget the troubles of the world and party way. Interesting that it follows the doom-laden title track.
A carefree song about a beautiful day.. makes me think of summer.
I think the simplicity of this song belies its message and in it we get closer to the 'inner' Prince.
Until his untimely death we were of a similar age, so some aspects of our experience were contemporary. I see the song as hearkening to a purely childlike consciousness. In the opening lines
"We want to play in the sunshine We want to be free Without the help of a margarita or ecstacy"
he's contrasting the typical party going life we both would have been living at the time the song came out with something more innocent. I'm not saying that either alcohol or drugs are particularly evil, but it says something about you, or the world, if the only way you can enjoy it is through these additives. If you need them you have lost a purity. And we know how Prince's fabulous story ends.
Its not just about having fun while you have the gift of life, its about a true sense of freedom that is already lost by the time the song is written, something you can't get it back.
But with a bit of luck and Prince playing this song into your life you can get a fleeting glimpse of that again, for at least a few moments.
I see this as Prince's cover version of Blakes "Songs of Innocence and Experience"
For a song about pure, simple fun I've always found it simultaneously uplifting and tragic, and if that isn't the essence of what it is to be a human being I don't know what is.