Prince

Released: November 9, 1999

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Ah-ooh, ah-ah-ooh, ah-ah-ooh, ah-ah-oh-ooh
Ah-ooh, ah-ah-ooh, ah-ah-ooh, ah-ah-oh-ooh

[Verse 1]
It's late and I'm running out of clever things to say
The kind that will bring a girl like you to tears
There's only one more glass of this rosé
Let's throw it on the fire with our past
And dance the night away until

[Chorus]
The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are forever, always

[Verse 2]
It's late and I think it's about time for you and me to get closer
To get closer than we ever did before (ooh)
Whenever there's a tide you can let it ride inside your interior
Lay back, relax upon my shore, oh
Ooh baby, I want to make love to you right here
One inside the other one, no fear, we're here until

[Chorus]
The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are forever, always

[Bridge]
Blow out this candle sunlight
And come lay down next to me
And paint another rainbow ooh-wee
Eclipse this light with ecstasy

[Verse 3]
Come on, come on
Let's lay down, I'm walking out of what to say
That kind of lucky rhyme make a chippy want to say
"Whisper in the belly" to me rocking rosé
Do you like I do, come on and dance the night away

Let's lay before they get to close the door
You and me, we got to get out on the floor
Come on, let the tide ride in and off the shore
I want to love you once again and then some more

Lay your head back I got my hand behind your head
Like you do the limbo supple on the bouncy bed
Let's bouncing on the summer spring and when you start to fall
You come like a cold winter due in Montréal

[Chorus]
The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are forever, always

The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are forever, always

The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are forever, always

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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