P.M. Dawn

Released: October 3, 1995

Songwriter: Prince Be Billy Joel

Producer: P.M. Dawn

No, there ain't nothing special 'bout my life
My egoism is so not
But oh so comfortably confusion is my life
Pleased to meet you baby, baby
'Cause I've got infinity to bring me a little paradise
There you are to kiss me
Must you always live right now?
But I always see you right in the middle of everybody's life
Singing everybody wants me there
But everybody wants to put me down

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What could be lonely 'bout you? What could be lonely 'bout you baby?
You're immaculately touched, and they love you so much
Whatever's lonely 'bout you
Only makes me totally convinced that my own personal gravity serves me well

Why am I always misinterpreting my guilt?
My happiness makes me sad somehow
And I'm no guardian angel but I can loan you mine
They're tickling all my precious depressions

So melancholy's bringing me a little of what he calls paradise
I'm bored with my elation, it humours me to tears sometimes
But always manages to put a little hickey on everybody's mind
Why does everybody want me here, but no one here can give me reasons why

(chorus)
Why do I do everything "dis" integration likes? I'm grieving with my patient patience
And all constant information tells me is
No one wants to be down here
But everyone was dumb enough to come

(chorus)

P.M. Dawn is an American R & B and Hip Hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey. They earned significant crossover success in the early 1990s with music that merged hip hop, older soul, and more pop-oriented urban R&B.

After recording their debut single “Ode to a Forgetful Mind” in 1988, P.M. Dawn released their first album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the The Utopian Experience in 1991 to critical acclaim. It achieved immediate commercial success because of its single “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”. Their 1993 follow-up The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence) was also praised by critics and featured the hit singles “I’d Die Without You” and “Looking Through Patient Eyes”. P.M. Dawn continued to receive strong reviews, but sold poorly with their subsequent albums Jesus Wept (1995) and Dearest Christian, I’m So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad (1998).

P.M. Dawn contributed a cover of “You Got Me Floatin'” to the 1993 compilation album Stone A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Artists ranging from Pat Metheny to Eric Clapton to Ice-T’s Body Count were included. They also remixed Beautiful People’s “If 60’s Was 90’s”.

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