Prince

Released: August 14, 1994

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
I wanna top the rose petals that whisper sweet
Come on

[Chorus]
So dark, dark, so dark
So dark, dark, so dark

[Verse 1]
Inside looking out my window
I don't see nothing but rain
Sun up in the sky just a shining (just a shining)
Still I'm lost in my shadow of pain

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Like an innocent man that's on death row
I don't understand what made you go
And wanna leave me baby
Leave me in the dark

[Ad Lib]
Can you tell me, tell me?

[Verse 2]
You took my sex and my money (money)
Took all my self esteem, yes you did
You had the nerve to think it was funny (funny)
I never knew a bitch so mean, yes sir

[Pre-Chorus 2]
You absolutely drove a man to tears
All I really know is that you sincerely
You wanna hurt me baby, oh yes you do
You wanna hurt me in the dark

[Interlude]
(Sunshine) Somebody make the sun shine
(Dark cloud) Somebody take this dark cloud away

[Pre-Chorus 3]
Just as sure as Noah built the ark
That's how sure
That's how sure I am you broke my heart

[Ad lib]
How could you, babe?
Leave me in the dark?
Baby

[Chorus]
So dark, dark, so dark

[Interlude]
Feel like the sun ain't never going to shine
You left me in the dark

[Chorus]
So dark, dark, so dark

[Interlude]
I don't know
I din't know why we ever had to part, Baby
Can't see a damn thing...

[Chorus]
So dark, dark, so dark

[Verse 3]
Sometimes I want to curse the ground you walk on
Even when I know that everything you feel I feel it too
I wanna curse you, baby, ooh
You left me in the dark

And now I want too I want to curse you, baby
For leaving me alone, alone, alone
You left me in the dark, ooh, yes you did
And now all I wanna say is

[Breakdown]
In the dark
Ow, you left me
Ow, you left me
It's like being on death row (in the dark)
I don't understand why you had to go
I don't understand why you (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why you (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why you hurt me (hurt me, hurt me)
Hurt me (hurt me in, hurt me in)
Hurt me, hurt me (hurt me in the dark)
Just leave me (in the dark)
(In the dark)

[Chorus]
So dark, dark, so dark
So dark, dark, so dark

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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