Prince

Released: November 29, 2019

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
I didn't mean to leave you
But I had to go
If changing my life would make you happy
Tell me and I'll make it so, oh

I wanna make you happy
I'll do whatever you say
And if it'll make you happy, girl
I'll come home right away

I'll give you all my money
If that'll make you smile
And if you're lonely, I'll come home, baby
All you gotta do is dial, oh

[Chorus]
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
And if it'll make you happy, girl
I'll come home right away, oh

[Verse 2]
You can stay in my house, baby
You can sleep in my bed
And if you want, I'll send you my body
You can sleep on it instead, oh

I don't dig to leave you
Leave you all alone
What's more, I really don't dig making love
Making love on a telephone, oh

[Chorus]
I really love you, baby
No matter what they say
And if it'll make you happy, girl
I'll come home right away (play the song, now, yeah)

Oh, no, no, no
I'll come home right away

[Verse 3]
I didn't mean to leave you
But I had to go
If changing my life would make you happy
Tell me, and I'll make it so

I wanna make you happy
I'll do whatever you say
If it'll make you happy, babe
I'll come home right away, oh

[Chorus]
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
And if it'll make you happy, girl
I'll come home right away, oh

I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
I'll come home right away
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
If it'll make you happy
I'll come home right away, ooh
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
If it'll make you happy, babe
I'll come home right away, ooh
I really love you, baby (oooh)
No matter what your friends may say
(ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh)
I'll come home right away
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
If it'll make you happy, babe
I'll come home right away
I really love you, baby
No matter what your friends may say
If it'll make you happy
I'll come right away

An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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