Prince

Released: July 10, 2010

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Nevermind the bird feed honey, just tell me your name
You won't have that long if I get my way in this game
My reputation precedes me, call it claim to fame
They know me around the world, you want me just the same
Why should you be satisfied with just heaven and earth?
When you look around there's so much more to the universe
Maybe every shining star is just another part
If you and I could ever open up our dirty hearts

[Ad libs]
Oh, open up
Oh yeah
Listen

[Verse 2]
All of us in minerals and chemicals of space
You carry within your womb, that's how we got to this place
This might seem a bit serious, but if it turns you on
Come with me now let's get nice 'til serious is gone
Why should you be satisfied with just heaven and earth?
When you look around there's so much more to the universe
Maybe every shining star is just another part
If you and I could ever open up our dirty hearts

[Ad libs]
Oh c'mon
Get nice

[Verse 3]
Love is much to small a word for what you feel for me
If you ever let me explore your anatomy
You and I lost in each other: prisoners yet free
Come on darling let's get to the beginning endlessly

[Ad libs]
Let's get down
Beginning endlessly
Let's get down
Come on
Oooh wee
Come on
Can't you see that I wantcha?
Come on
Can't you see that I wantcha?

[Verse 3]
History is full of praise for another's history
More and more than the one that became before both you and me
Left alone with our devices, whatever will be will be
A brand new story in the making beginning endlessly

[Outro]
Love is much to small a word,for what you feel for me
If ever you you let me be, let me be your man
Ooh baby!
Understand
I want to
I want to be your man
Get on down, come on
Beginning endlessly

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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