Prince

Released: July 15, 2007

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Come with it
(Ooh, ooh, ooh, ahh)

[Verse 1]
The main problem with war
Is that nobody ever wins
The next generation grows up
And learns how to do it all over again
No matter who started the argument
Just matters how each one ends
How many people really want resolution?

[Verse 2]
The main problem with people
Is they never do what they say (They say)
One minute they want peace (Want peace)
Then do everything to make it go away
Dropping bombs on each other
In the act of saving face
Tell me now, people, how is that resolution?

[Chorus]
Either you do or you don't
Either you will or you won't
Making amends (Make amends)
Is a difficult pill to swallow

[Verse 3]
What can we lose if we try?
With no water, a flower dies
With no one to lead, resolution will follow (Ohh, yes it will)
Resolution

[Bridge]
Love is like a circle
No beginning and no end
A broken heart will mend
If you love it like your best friend

Handle your heart with care
It's as delicate as the wind
When the storms come again
Pray for resolution

[Chorus]
Either you do or you don't
Either you will or you won't
Making amends (Make amends)
Is a difficult pill to swallow

[Outro]
Will you want resolution?
(Either you do or you don't)
Come on, everybody
All over the world (La, la, la, la, la)
All over the world (Do, do, do, do, do)
Tell me
How many people really want resolution?

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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