Prince

Released: November 29, 2019

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Teacher, teacher
I'm really not lovin' you
But you're the teacher
I try to do what you want me to
I know you get lonely
But you gotta know
It wasn't love
Let me tell you honey
I'm just a young boy
Don't think I know it enough

[Chorus]
Teacher, teacher
I don't wanna get an A
Teacher, teacher
There's gotta be a better way

[Verse 2]
I'm sick and tired of makin' plans
Without makin' up my mind
(Make up your mind)
Teacher, teacher
Can't you see I just need a little time
I know you've been cryin'
'Cause you spent the night alone
Well you can cry me a river
Well I don't deliver
We have to do it on the phone

[Chorus]
Teacher, teacher
I don't wanna get an A
Teacher, teacher
There's gotta be a better way

(Woohoo, yeah)
Teacher, teacher
I'm not really tryin' to get you down
But why should you get used to somebody
Who won't be around
I know you get discouraged
Cause you wanna get it all the time

Honey I can't let you use my body
The same way you use my mind

[Chorus]
Teacher, teacher
I don't wanna get an A
Teacher, teacher
There's gotta be a better way
Teacher, teacher
I don't wanna get an A
Teacher, teacher
There's gotta be a better way

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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