Prince

Released: September 25, 2020

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Oh, oh

Oh, sometimes I can't make up my mind
I don't know which yellow brick road to take
Everybody makes suggestions but the words don't rhyme
The decisions they don't have to live by are easy ones to make
Why can't they love me for what I am instead of what they want me to be?

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night

It’s nobody's fault but your own
If you don't do what you want
I ain’t claimin’ no group solution
That’ll work for everyone
Just a simple pop psychology that sings

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night

And if anybody gets in the way
(Sha sha, ooh)
Gets a kiss on the cheek
(Sha sha, ooh, wonderful)
That'll, uh, that'll make it alright
(Wonderful)
Make it, make it, make it alright
Yeah
Yeah, oh, whoo
It's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night
Yeah, bop bop bop bop
Bop bop bop bop
Ow, Uh

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night

It’s nobody's fault but your own
If you don't do what you want
But you got to know
What you want first
Most of our problem, soon as it pass
It gets irrational
Lose all their hunger
All their thirst

[Chorus]
Nevertheless, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll, huh, be a wonderful night

And if anybody gets in the way
(Sha sha, ooh)
Gets a kiss on the cheek
(Sha sha, ooh, wonderful)
That'll, uh, that'll make it alright
(Wonderful)
Make it, make it, make it alright
Yeah
Yeah, oh, whoo
It's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night, yeah
Ow, Uh

Darlin', I know what you're like
(What?)
And baby, I know it's your world
Insecurities never make no money
Animosity kills boys and girls, oh
(Wonderful day, wonderful)
It's a wonderful day, baby
(Wonderful)
Why can't you see, why can't you see?

[Interlude]

Sometimes I can't make up my mind
I don't know which yellow brick road to take
Everybody makes suggestions but the words don't rhyme
The decisions they don't have to live by are easy ones to make
Why can't they love me for what I am instead of what they want me to be?
A true love, together mind
Too open to fantasies

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight'll be a wonderful night

Bop bop bop

Ow, whoop, ahhh
Wonderful day, wonderful, wonderful day
Won-der-ful Daaaay
(Uh uh)
Wonderful day
(Uh uh)
Wonderful night
(Uh uh)
Wonderful day
(Uh uh)
Wonderful night
You know it's gonna be alright
Wonderful
Day

Nevertheless, it's a wonderful day, baby, Lord
Tonight'll be a wonderful night
Sing it
Hey, it's a wonderful day, baby
Tonight, tonight, I promise it'll be alright

[Outro]
Everybody get up on the one
Papa wanna have some fun
Everybody get down on the three
Party, but you and me
Everybody get up on the one
Tonight we're gonna have some fun
Everybody get down on the three
Party, mama, you and me, uh uh

Oho, oho, oho

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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