Prince

Released: August 21, 1990

Featuring: Tevin Campbell Mavis Staples

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Chorus]
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Something to believe in, a reason to believe that there's a heaven above
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for love

[Verse 1]
Everybody wants to find the perfect one
Someone that makes you happy, someone that makes you laugh when you want to cry
Everybody wants to find the perfect one
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for love

[Verse 2]
The love of a boy, the love of a girl
The love that comes from a warm heart in a cold cold world
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Something to believe in, a reason to believe that there's a heaven above
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for love

[Chorus]
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
(people throw away your arms of fire)
A bridge of many colors
A bridge that leads them to a love they know is real
(let democracy take you higher)
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Everybody's looking for (if you believe)
Everybody's looking for (wave your hands)
Everybody's looking for love (on the power of love)

(Love is shining)
(everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge)

There's a future (sure, you're right) a future worth fighting for
I'm a living witness
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge
Ooo, everything's gonna be alright, alright, alright
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for
Everybody's looking for love

[Outro]
There is a future (a future worth fighting for)
Worth fighting for
Yes it is, I know it is
Everything will be alright
Everybody wants to find Graffiti Bridge

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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