Released: April 23, 1988
Songwriter: Prince
Producer: Prince
[Verse 1: Prince]
I'm going down to Alphabet Street
I'm going to crown the first girl that I meet
I'm going to talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head to my feet
I'm going to drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's Thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm going to put her in the back seat
And drive her to Tennessee
[Verse 2: Prince]
Excuse me, baby
I don't mean to be rude
But I guess tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood
So if you don't mind (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would like to watch
We're going down, down, down, if that's the only way
To make this cruel, cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day
[Interlude: Prince and backing vocalists]
Cat, we need you to rap
Don't give to us slow
Cause we know you know
New Power Soul
Got to got to got to go!
[Verse 3: Cat Glover and Prince]
Talk to me lover
Come on tell me what you taste
Didn't your mama tell you
Life is to good to waste? (Put your love down)
Didn't she tell you
That Lovesexy was the glam of them all?
If you can hang, you can trip on it
You surely won't fall (Put your love down)
No side effects and
The feeling last forever
Straight up - it tastes good
It makes you feel clever (Put your love down)
You kiss your enemies
Like you know you should
Then you jerk your body
Like a horny pony would (Put your love down)
You jerk your body like a horny pony would
Now run and tell your mama about that!
And while you're at it tell your papa about this!
[Breakdown: Prince]
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there
Get home, Alphabet Street
No!
[Outro: Prince and Shelia E]
L-L-L-L-Lovesexy
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
A B C D E F H I love you
I'm going down to Alphabet Street
I'm going to crown the first girl that I meet
I'm going to talk so sexy
She'll want me from my head to my feet
I'm going to drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's Thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm going to put her in the back seat
And drive her to Tennessee
[Verse 2: Prince]
Excuse me, baby
I don't mean to be rude
But I guess tonight I'm just not, I'm just not in the mood
So if you don't mind (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I would like to watch
We're going down, down, down, if that's the only way
To make this cruel, cruel world hear what we've got to say
Put the right letters together and make a better day
[Interlude: Prince and backing vocalists]
Cat, we need you to rap
Don't give to us slow
Cause we know you know
New Power Soul
Got to got to got to go!
[Verse 3: Cat Glover and Prince]
Talk to me lover
Come on tell me what you taste
Didn't your mama tell you
Life is to good to waste? (Put your love down)
Didn't she tell you
That Lovesexy was the glam of them all?
If you can hang, you can trip on it
You surely won't fall (Put your love down)
No side effects and
The feeling last forever
Straight up - it tastes good
It makes you feel clever (Put your love down)
You kiss your enemies
Like you know you should
Then you jerk your body
Like a horny pony would (Put your love down)
You jerk your body like a horny pony would
Now run and tell your mama about that!
And while you're at it tell your papa about this!
[Breakdown: Prince]
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there when you want to get shot
Put your love down there
Get home, Alphabet Street
No!
[Outro: Prince and Shelia E]
L-L-L-L-Lovesexy
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
Yea, Oh, Alphabet Street
A B C D E F H I love you
The Hits/The B-Sides
- 1999 (7" Stereo Edit)
- Feel U Up
- Pope
- 200 Balloons
- I Love U In Me
- Irresistible Bitch
- Girl
- God
- 17 Days
- Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
- La, La, La, He, He, Hee
- Scarlet Pussy
- Peach
- Hello
- Power Fantastic
- I Would Die 4 U (7" Single Version)
- When Doves Cry (7" Single Edit)
- I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man (Fade 7” Edit)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend (7" Single Edit)
- Sign O’ the Times (7" Single Edit)
- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes [Live]
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Escape
- Horny Toad
- Shockadelica
- Pink Cashmere
- Another Lonely Christmas
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- She’s Always in My Hair
- Diamonds and Pearls
- U Got the Look
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Head
- Let’s Go Crazy
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 7
- Purple Rain
- Kiss
- Little Red Corvette
- Erotic City
- Sexy M.F.
- Soft and Wet
- Gett Off
- Cream
- Thieves In The Temple
- I Feel for You
- Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
- Alphabet St.
- Delirious
- Pop Life
- Uptown
- Dirty Mind
- Do Me, Baby
- Raspberry Beret
- Lovesexy (1988)
- The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)
- The Very Best of Prince (2001)
- Ultimate (2006)
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- Adore
- Sign O’ the Times
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- P. Control
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Head
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Do Me, Baby
- Sister
- Starfish and Coffee
- Soft and Wet
- 1000 X’s & O’S
- The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
- U Got the Look
- Call My Name
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- Dirty Mind
- Gold