Prince

Released: March 24, 2009

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Groove
Oh
Where am I?

[Verse 1]
Universe of paradoxical design
Reality of merely in the mind
In my head or in some German town
She said "you want a four leaf clover in the ground?"
Ain't superstitious and I don't believe in luck
But I heard the thunder before the lightning struck
Couldn't read the writing 'cause it was so small
But according to the document she got on the wall

[Chorus]
She gets down like the wall of Berlin
I come 'round about a quarter to ten
We just met or at least we pretend
It's so fresh knocking down the wall of Berlin

[Verse 2]
Where am I?
Galaxy of monumental delight
Or parallel hologram copyright?
The call comes unexpected like a mugger in the park
And the sound of the train interrupts the question mark

[Chorus]
Who you gonna be tonight, baby?
Wall of Berlin
A quarter to ten
Oh
Wall of Berlin
Come on
Uh
I like it
Who you gonna be tonight?

[Verse 3]
Is that the Queen of Sheba or an alien dream?
The marks on the table say somewhere in between
Not one for rituals but one thing I have found
Everything's better when you come around

[Chorus]
To gets down like the wall of Berlin
I come 'round about a quarter to ten
We just met or, uh, at least we pretend
It's so fresh knocking down the wall of Berlin
Knock it, baby
Wall of Berlin
Wall of Berlin
Ow!
Wall of Berlin
On the one

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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