Prince

Released: November 9, 1999

Songwriter: Brian MacLeod Jeff Trott Sheryl Crow

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Everyday is a winding road, is a winding road, is a winding road, oh

[Verse 1]
I hitched a ride with a Crazy Horse showgirl
She says she been down this road more than twice
Time
She wanted to know if I could tell the future
Tell the future
I said, "I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice"

[Pre-Chorus]
Jump in, let's go Let's go, baby
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high High
Everybody gets low Low
These are the days when anything goes

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

[Verse 2]
Listen now
She's got a daughter she calls Easter
She was born on a Tuesday night
I was just wondering you people feel so all alone
All alone
Like a stranger in their own life

[Pre-Chorus]
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high High
Everybody gets low Low
These are the days when anything goes

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

[Verse 3]
I've been swimming in a sea of anarchy
I've been living on compliments and herbal tea
I've been wondering if all the things I'd ever seen
Were ever real
Were ever real, were ever really happening

[Pre-Chorus]
Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high High
Everybody gets low
These are the days when anything goes

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
Everyday is a faded sign

[Brdige]
(Da-da, da-da) Everyday, everyday
(Da-da, da-da) Everyday, everyday
Oh yeah
Everyday, everyday
Everyday, everyday

Do you love your brother? Everyday, everyday
Do you love your sister? Everyday, everyday
Do you love us? Everyday, everyday
Do you love God? Everyday, everyday

[Chorus]
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign

[Outro]
Everyday is a winding road (winding road)
Come on
We can make it
We can New Power Soul
Dance, dance, dance Dance on the funk
Dance, dance, dance Dance on the funk
Everyday is a winding road

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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