Prince

Released: September 26, 1995

Songwriter: Michael B. Nelson Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
Billy Jack Bitch (Billy Jack, Billy Jack)(Bitch)
What if I called you silly names
Just like the ones that you call me?
What if I filled your eyes with tears
So many that you cannot see?

[Chorus]
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever really cry? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever really try? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever wonder why? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch (Billy Jack Bitch)
(Billy Jack Bitch)

[Verse 2]
What if I told you that you're worth
Only half of what you be?
Would you come forth and tell no lies?
Would you come forth and talk to me?

[Chorus]
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever really cry? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever really try? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch - Do you ever wonder why? (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy Jack Bitch (Billy Jack Bitch)
(Billy Jack Bitch)

[Verse 3]
What distortion could you let your pen forget today?
What misfortune left your heart so broken you only say
Words intended to belittle or dismay?
What if I say you lie?
Billy Jack Bitch (Well)
Open letters aren't the only things that open wounds
Long hard shiny rocket ships can fly you to the moon
Whenever evil wants to groove
Come let me fly you to the moon
Then you can see how love will bloom
Joy - it's in the dictionary
See "J" Billy Jack Bitch

[Chorus]
Do you ever really cry? (Do you ever really cry Billy Jack Bitch?)
Do you ever really try? (Do you ever really try Billy Jack Bitch?)
Do you ever wonder why? (Do you ever wonder why Billy Jack Bitch?)
Oh, Billy Jack Bitch (Billy Jack Bitch)
Billy, Billy, oh yeah yeah yeah!
(Do you ever really cry Billy Jack Bitch?)
(Do you ever really try Billy Jack Bitch?) Cry, cry
(Do you ever wonder why Billy Jack Bitch?) Try, try
(Billy Jack Bitch) Billy, Billy, oh
(Billy Jack Bitch)
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)
(Billy Jack Bitch)
Uh
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)
Yeah, uh
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)
(Billy Jack Bitch)
Solo with that on there
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)
(Billy Jack, Billy Jack)

[Spoken: Rain Ivana]
Please access another experience
Please access another experience

[Outro]
(Billy Jack Bitch)
Ha ha ha ha ha
Y'all some tight motherfuckers

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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