Prince

Released: January 29, 1998

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Baby, you take a walk
Take a walk and leave me behind
Baby, you are going to walk, yeah
Gonna walk right out of your mind
We were meant to be
Got no reason, reason to lie
Baby, you take a walk
Think I'm going to talk sexual suicide

[Verse 2]
Baby, if you only knew
All the love, want a love that's deep in my heart
Ooh baby, me and you
Wouldn't be nothing could tear us apart
Honey, uh, every night
Cool surrender, lost in my arms
You, you feel so right
Doing it in the cuff, sound your alarm
Baby, come take a walk
People gonna talk sexual suicide

[Bridge]
No body like my body, baby
Ain't no ride like my ride
Super skinny-minded baby if you try to leave me:
Sexual suicide

[Verse 3]
Sugar, ain't it a shame
That you won't play the game
You got too much pride
You, you make your bed
But you gotta sleep with the sexual, sexual suicide
Suicide, sexual, sexual suicide

[Outro]
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
Girl
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
If you take a walk
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
People gonna talk
(Sexual, uh-huh, sexual suicide)
Somebody flip me over
Any liars in the house?
No?
Hey!
Eric

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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