Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Chorus]
I'm gonna build a big tall wall
Stone circle so you can't get out
Big tall wall
True love is what it's all about

[Verse 1]
When I see you walking down the street
My heart does a double beat
I wanna rap but I can't find the line
That a groovin' and you're so divine
When you look at me I drippity drip
All my cool goes slippity slip
I keep trippin' on the thought of you
When I get you what I'm going to do

[Chorus]
I'm gonna build a big tall wall
Stone circle so you can't get out
Big tall wall, baby
True love is what it's all about

[Verse 2]
If I see you in a restaurant
I can't eat, ooh, baby, you're all I want
You make me sweat, girl, you drunk all my cool
I feel like a kid in nursery school
All the others claim ecstasy
All I know is what you do to me
You got me feelin' like a heavy spell
Come on baby hit me, I don't care

[Chorus]
'Cause I got a big tall wall, baby
Stone circle so you can't get out
Big tall wall, baby
True love is what it's all about
Baby, huh
Baby, huh
Big tall wall, big tall wall
Let me put you behind a big tall wall
Baby, stone circle so you can't get out
Big tall wall
Baby, huh
Ooh pretty mama you can scream and shout

[Breakdown]
If I see you walkin' down the street
(See you walkin' down the street)
My heart does a double beat (My heart does a double beat)
Big tall wall
True love is what it's all about
True love is what it's all about
True love is what it's all about
All about, all about

[Refrain]
Big tall wall, big tall wall, big tall wall
Let me put you behind my big tall wall
Big tall wall, big tall wall, big tall wall
Let me put you behind my big tall wall

Yeah
Come on y'all

[Refrain]
Big tall wall, big tall wall, big tall wall
Let me put you behind my big tall wall

[Chorus]
Big tall wall, huh
Big tall wall
Baby
Big tall wall, baby
Stone circle so you can't get out, alright
Big tall wall
Baby
True live is, true love, true love, true love is what it's all about

[Outro]
Big ol', big ol' tall wall
Well, yeah yeah
Oh
Come on y'all
Big ol' tall wall
Tall wall, big ol' tall wall
Come on y'all
Big ol' tall wall

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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