Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Last night I was lonely not for anyone
Not just for anyone
Last night I wanted you

[Verse 2]
Stars outside my window counting just for fun
Counting just for fun
I counted 2,002
Ooh

[Chorus]
Emotional pump, you are my
Concentrate on you is all I have to do
To make my body jump, emotional pump
Like the falling rain my body cries
For you are my emotional pump

[Verse 3]
I want you not just sexually
Not just sexually
But in a way like a mother wants a child
Ooh

[Verse 4]
To Mars I wanna go
Pardon my dying soul
It's all in black and white
Darling, can you take me tonight?
Ooh

[Chorus]
Emotional pump, you are my
Concentrate on you is all I have to do
To make my body jump, emotional pump
Like the falling rain, my body cry
For you are my emotional pump
Emotional
Emotional pump

[Spoken Interlude]
I notice the rain more than I used to
More than I used to
When I had you always, always
Always know you're gone
Now I'm so blue
Bluer than I use to
Bluer than I use to be

[Chorus]
Oh, emotional pump, you are my
Concentrate on you is all I have to do
To make my body jump, emotional pump
Like the falling rain, my body cry
For you are my emotional pump
Yeah
Oh, emotional
Every day, every day I've been missin' you
(Emotional pump)
Ooh, ooh

[Chorus]
Emotional pump, you are my
Concentrate on you is all I have to do
To make my body jump, emotional pump
Like the falling rain, my body cry
For you are my emotional pump

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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