Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Come on, man, get your bag
We got to go
Man, tell that girl goodbye, let's get out of here
Woo

[Verse 1]
I wanna talk to you (Talk to you, said I wanna talk to you)
'Bout this love affair
Is it really true (Really true, tell me, is it really true?)
That you don't care?
Seems like every day (Every day, seems like every day)
You grow farther away
Tell me, what can I say (What can I say?)
To make you stay? (Make you stay)

[Pre-Chorus]
If you really don't love me anymore
I just don't know what to say

[Chorus]
There's a train that's leavin' in the morning
That will take you straight to Santa Fe
If you feel this thing we got just can't go on
Then I won't stand in your way
(I won't stand in your way)
(I won't stand in your way)
No, no

[Verse 2]
I'm so in love with you (I'm so in love with you)
You're all I wanna be (You're all I wanna be)
Whenever you go away, baby (Whenever you go away)
You take a part of me (You take a part of me)
Yes, you do (Yes, you do)
A man's gotta do what he gotta do
But remember, babe, wherever you go
I'm with you (I'm with you)
('Cause I need ya)

[Pre-Chorus]
If you really don't love me anymore
I just don't know what to say

[Chorus]
There's a train that's leavin' in the morning
That will take you straight to Santa Fe
If you feel this thing we got just can't go on
Then I won't stand in your way
(I won't stand in your way)
(I won't stand in your way)
No, no
Woo

[Instrumental]
(Man, get your bag)
(Get out of here)

[Pre-Chorus]
If you really don't love me anymore
I just don't know what to say

[Chorus]
There's a train that's leavin' in the morning
That will take you straight to Santa Fe (Take you, take you)
If you feel this thing we got just can't go on (Darling, no)
I won't stand in your way
(I won't stand in your way)
(I won't stand in your way)
(I won't stand in your way)
Woo

[Outro]
(Come on, baby)
(Take this with you)
Train
Train

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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