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Riff: Prince – “Tictactoe”

Sep 30, 2014

Like a bunch of blind people playing tic tac toe/Who knows where the zeroes and the x’s go/Just like sweet November/Here comes a pretender

from Tictactoe lyrics by Prince

Lighthearted and whimsical like it were torn from the pages of a long lost fairy tale. It’s folskier and more down to earth, and the message itself is so simple a child could understand it. But even then there’s a feel that it’s not reaching the people that it needs to, that it’s falling upon deaf ears.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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