Prince

Released: June 23, 2013

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Alright you Polaroids, let's go!
Mhh we're in the big city
Uh, come on!

[Chorus]
Where ever we are it's a big city
Dirty little hotel room or working on a farm
If everybody is a star, to me, you're the most pretty
I'm in the big city, the big city, the big city
When I'm in your arms

[Verse 1]
Bright Lights, a sea of faces
Something tells me this is gonna be fun
Tonight's the night
And of all the places
That I'm going to fall in love, it's got to be this one
There'll never be anybody happier than this
Let's make a vow and seal it with a kiss
(Uh, yeah)

[Chorus]
Where ever we are it's a big city
Dirty little hotel room or working on a farm
If everybody is a star, to me, you're the most pretty
I'm in the big city, the big city, the big city
When I'm in your arms

[Verse 2]
It's our time - we're in the line for the big break
Everything is looking up when you're this low to the ground
It's bout time
Everybody's on the take
Let's get a big brush and paint this town
The night is young...
Much younger than we are
Let's kiss the night
Away in a fast car

[Chorus]
Where ever we are it's a big city
Dirty little hotel room or working on a farm
If everybody is a star, to me, you're the most pretty
I'm in the big city (and me), the big city, the big city
When I'm in your arms

[Verse 3]
Everybody's getting money instead of getting saved
Not you and me honey we already gave
Just as long as eye got you don't care come what may...
(Well she's in the big city)
I just came to tell y'all
From the darkest desperation to the highest bliss
Power to the one's aware of the bigger than this!
Big city uh, where's my guitar?
What's going on? Everything good

[Chorus]
Where ever we are it's a big city
Dirty little hotel room or working on a farm
If everybody is a star, to me, you're the most pretty
I'm in the big city, the big city, the big city
When I'm in your arms

[Outro]
The big city so pretty
Oh yeah
Taking back the lane give it to the next man, plane
Foxy and you what you wanna do?
That's it

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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