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When the Lights Go DownPrince

Released: August 24, 1999

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Another Friday night
Another tired line
Baby, you sure look good
Hey baby, what's your sign?

How many ask for your number
Before they even know your name?
How many out there tired of playing
This silly old time game?

[Chorus]
Hey, and when the lights go down
And it's just you two
That's when you and your lover, yeah
Do what they're supposed to

That's when you feel the heat
Hotter than July
That's when you and your baby, baby, baby
When your baby get it right
That's when your baby get it right

[Verse 2]
How can you tell him no
When he loves you so?
He'll buy you anything
Anything you want

His eyes all aglow
He'll know you're good to go
Dinner, dinner, dinner in the finest restaurant, yeah
Girl, you'd better know
Reel him in until he do it a couple times in a row
It's just the same, it's just a game
Go back to do whatever, he'll sleep outside your door

[Chorus]
When the lights go down, yeah
And it's just you two
That's when you hear the sounds
Of what true lovers do, yeah

And when you feel the heat, oh
Hotter than July
That's when you and your baby
When your baby get it right
When your baby get it right

[Outro]
That's when your baby get it right
That's when your baby plays with it right
Baby, get it right

Prince

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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