Released: July 11, 1988
Songwriter: Prince
Producer: Prince
[Intro]
Snare drum pounds on the 2 and 4
All the party people get on the floor
All the party people get on the floor
Bass
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
(Glam Slam)
Escape!
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
[Verse 1]
Fifteen minutes ain't long enough
To be out your mind in a world so tough
If you wanna escape and truly be
All the crack in Compton won't set you free
Come on
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
(Slammin')
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
[Verse 2]
You got to be yourself, you gotta be aware
'Cause the Gangster-man, he don't give a care
Whether you live, or whether you die
Glam Slam Escape, gotta give it a try
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
(Slammin')
Escape!
[Breakdown]
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Where did I hear that before?
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Glam Slam
Escape!
Everybody trippin' on the party bass
However higher you get, is a matter of taste
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Winner takes all in the hardest race
[Verse 3]
Don't get on the scale if you ain't got the weight
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Say
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Come on
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Yeah
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
One more
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
[Chorus]
Escape!
Glam Slam
[Outro]
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
Snare drum pounds on the 2 and 4
All the party people get on the floor
All the party people get on the floor
Bass
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
(Glam Slam)
Escape!
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
[Verse 1]
Fifteen minutes ain't long enough
To be out your mind in a world so tough
If you wanna escape and truly be
All the crack in Compton won't set you free
Come on
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
(Slammin')
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
[Verse 2]
You got to be yourself, you gotta be aware
'Cause the Gangster-man, he don't give a care
Whether you live, or whether you die
Glam Slam Escape, gotta give it a try
[Chorus]
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
(Slammin')
Escape!
[Breakdown]
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Where did I hear that before?
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Glam Slam
Escape!
Everybody trippin' on the party bass
However higher you get, is a matter of taste
(Party baby)
(Party baby)
Winner takes all in the hardest race
[Verse 3]
Don't get on the scale if you ain't got the weight
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Say
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Come on
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
Yeah
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
One more
It's more hard to love than it is to hate
[Chorus]
Escape!
Glam Slam
[Outro]
Glam Slam
Free your mind from this rat race
Glam Slam
Escape!
The Hits/The B-Sides
- 1999 (7" Stereo Edit)
- Feel U Up
- Pope
- 200 Balloons
- I Love U In Me
- Irresistible Bitch
- Girl
- God
- 17 Days
- Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
- La, La, La, He, He, Hee
- Scarlet Pussy
- Peach
- Hello
- Power Fantastic
- I Would Die 4 U (7" Single Version)
- When Doves Cry (7" Single Edit)
- I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man (Fade 7” Edit)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend (7" Single Edit)
- Sign O’ the Times (7" Single Edit)
- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes [Live]
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Escape
- Horny Toad
- Shockadelica
- Pink Cashmere
- Another Lonely Christmas
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- She’s Always in My Hair
- Diamonds and Pearls
- U Got the Look
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Head
- Let’s Go Crazy
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 7
- Purple Rain
- Kiss
- Little Red Corvette
- Erotic City
- Sexy M.F.
- Soft and Wet
- Gett Off
- Cream
- Thieves In The Temple
- I Feel for You
- Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
- Alphabet St.
- Delirious
- Pop Life
- Uptown
- Dirty Mind
- Do Me, Baby
- Raspberry Beret
- The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- Adore
- Sign O’ the Times
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- P. Control
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Head
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Do Me, Baby
- Sister
- Starfish and Coffee
- Soft and Wet
- 1000 X’s & O’S
- The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
- U Got the Look
- Call My Name
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- Dirty Mind
- Gold