Prince

Released: January 29, 1998

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

So dark, so dark
(Dark)
So dark, so dark
(Dark)

Inside lookin' out my window
I don't see nothin' but rain
Sun up in the sky just-a-shinin'
(Just-a-shinin')
Still I'm lost in my shadow of pain
(Mm, hmm)

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
Can you tell me, tell me?

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

You absolutely drove a man to tears
All I really know is that you sincerely
Wanna hurt me, baby
Oh, yes you do
You wanna hurt me in the dark

Sunshine, somebody make
The sun shine, dark cloud, somebody
Take this dark cloud away
Just as sure as Noah built the ark
(That's how sure)
That's how sure I am you broke my heart

How could you, baby, leave me in the dark?
Baby, it's so dark , so dark, so dark
(Dark)

Feel like the sun ain't never
Gonna shine, you left me in the dark
So dark, so dark
(Dark)

I don't know, I don't know why
We ever had to part
Baby, can't see a damn thing
Out my window, it's so dark
So dark, so dark
(Dark)

Sometimes I want to curse
The ground you walk on
Even when I know that
Everything you feel, I feel it to

I wanna curse you, baby
Ooh, you left me in the dark
And now I want to curse you, baby
(I wanna curse you, baby)

For leavin' me alone, alone, alone
(You left me in the dark)
Oh, yes you did
And now all I wanna say is
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 here
Just leave me
(In the dark, in the dark)

So dark, so dark
(Dark, in the dark)
So dark, so dark
(Dark, in the 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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