Prince

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse]
Love, like a rose in bloom
All of the rainbow children will feel it soon
To the east, word traveled about this energy
Until it reached the banished ones
Who just wanted this love to cease
They now fallen into
The resistor's dream
And they built a digital garden
Or so it seemed
In this brilliant darkness
So-called angels of light
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
And all the rainbow children will stand and fight
For everlasting, everlasting life
For the one who sits on the right
For the one who sits on the right
For the one who sits on the right
For him we're willing to do the work

[Spoken]
The banished ones approaching
The palace shouted obscenities
They tried to confuse the rainbow children
And dethrone their king
Using the lies promoted by the whose papers
Hella visions, and scagazines
The banished ones constructed a digital garden
Around the palace that extended throughout the world
Furthermore they demanded compensation for their time
Spent in the palace before the exile, this was noise
"So be it," said the wise one
And gladly obliged with an invisible deed
The banished ones accepted
And returned to their place of birth in mendacity
As for the rainbow children
They began deconstructing the digital garden
Door to door they went in search of those willing to do the work

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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