Lyrical SPECulation (put on your sunglasses, folks)

Sorry for the delay. I’ve been continuously working on it.

That sounds right. This was my first P-Funk album, and I remember thinking it was Sensei (and sometimes still forget, since I’m not too big on CC).

“Have they forgot me?”.

I assume “they” is CC or Earth in general.

[Sean/sounds carney/Connery/carny] (1) I thought it was “Sean Carney”, but I knew that “Sean Connery” is someone who might be named-dropped. “Aw [?] can go to Hell” makes sense as a person. (2) But “sound carny”, as in carnival, makes sense with the first part, like handcuffs in a magic act. Their stage clothes were compared to Mardi Gras afterall. (3) “corney” would also work with the first part.

This one has stumped me.

“Ah. Checkin’ out your signals”.

I think he’s always saying “Ah” by itself. Makes more sense to me like that. I’d guess that (1) it functions as a sex-noise to match the theme of the track/album, and (2) as a filler sound to avoid grappling with the lyrics to create that enjoyable call-and-response between him and the background singers’, with the “I” in “I can move you if you let me”, perhaps communicating that the parties are in-sync with each other. (Wow. I didn’t think it would get that deep.)

“‘til we’re somewhere sharing fantasy normal an’ or otherwise”.

“normal and or otherwise”. “otherwise” huh :thinking:. If you’ve seen the original album cover of Up For the Down Stroke (Whatever Makes Baby Feel Good), it would fit the kink(?) of mid-70’s Parliament. (That cover deserves it’s own thread.)

[1:35] “we be struttin’ like a fella givin’ up plenty of sound, we be funkin’ like the [call?] they were doin’”.

Fairly sure it’s fella. “all” doesn’t make sense, but “call” does and fits with the album’s horn theme.

[2:11] “remember when we were dozy’”.

Fairly sure it’s “dozy”.

“once I lived and learned to read so [I//I’ll] [?] [know how?]”.