Cherry Mountains

Short Story Interlude: 5 Women

Song: 5 Women by Prince (outtake)

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Temptation

I'm not talkin' about just ordinary temptation, people.

I'm talking about the kind of temptation that'll make U do things.

Oh, oh, temptation.

Oh, darling, I can almost taste the wetness between your...

Temptation, temptation

I'm not talking about any ol' kind of temptation, people, I'm talkin' about...

I'm talkin' about... sexual temptation.

A lover

I need a lover, a lover, I need a...right now.

U, I want U.

I want U in the worst way.

I want U.

After Nahla abruptly ended their phone call, Prince revisited a song he recorded earlier in the Spring. It was titled Temptation. And he recorded the monologue in his mobile studio which was parked out in his yard.

"Oh, silly man, that's not how it works. You have 2 want her 4 the right reasons."

I do!

"U don't, now die!"

No! No!

Let me go, let me go.

I'm sorry.

I'll be good.

This time I promise,

Love is more important than sex.

Now I understand.

I have 2 go now.

I don't know when I'll return.

Good-bye.

In the wee hours of the morning, Prince was laying in his five-million dollar bed, talking to an answering machine.

"I'm sorry, baby. I know you mad at me, right now. And I know you're not home. But I don't want to call ya mama's house and run up her tape...I'm sorry, baby. I love you. I'm gonna call you tomorrow and we'll fix this."

Sixty-three seconds later...

"Baby, you know I didn't mean that stuff, right? You just really know how to piss a playa off. I ain't no punk...and you was talkin' reckless...but I know you ain't like the rest of them. Those girls can't compare to you, baby. You mean the world to me..."

Forty-five seconds later...

"Nahla, baby...(snickers)...if I sound like a drunken fool, it's because I drank too much from your river, baby. I can taste you right now...my sweetness. I can't wait to juice your cherry. I promise, I'm gonna make you feel so good. We're gonna make love until the world stops turning, baby. I'm gonna feel your every curve. You're going to take my shape, perfectly. You're going to cry from the pain. But I'm going to kiss away every tear. And tell you how much I love you. (starts whispering...) I wish you could see me in my dreams. I wish you could see us—how our bodies move in perfect rhythm...all the sweat between us...you have to hear the way you scream my name...and that sound you make when I'm deep inside of you...fucking you...making you come—over and over, and over, and over and again and again...(fifteen seconds of shaky breathing) I want you so bad, baby.................."