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Sleep AroundPrince

Released: November 19, 1996

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it

[Chorus]
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't want to sleep around
Give her what she want when she want
When it come to you, she down

[Verse 1]
Baby let me read her journal
Or should I say: she turned around and it was gone
The innuendo reads eternal
Or should I say: every other page I'm on

[Verse 2]
When she come to cook your dinner
You can ask her if what I say is true
The secret will remain within her
But her shade of red will turn yours blue

[Chorus]
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't want to sleep around
Give her what she want when she want
When it come to you, she down

[Verse 3]
Maybe you recall last summer
When you saw her riding in my car
A kiss or two later she was back in your bed
Smelling like a fallen star
Just because she's fine
You think she don't wine and dine with everyone you know
Oh, long as you're fooled, I'm cool
She says she going to put me in a video
You need to

[Chorus]
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't wanna sleep around
(I'm watching you, baby) (Do it like she like it, do it)
Give her what she want when she want it
When it come to you, she down
(Do it like she like)

[Post-Chorus]
Sleep around, sleep around
Sleep around, sleep around

[Bridge]
I'm the one who sent the herbs and a book on how to use them
I'm the one who pointed out her fears and how to lose them
And if a difference love will make
This advice you ought to take

[Verse 1]
Baby let me read her journal
Or should I say: she turned around and it was gone
The innuendo reads eternal
Or should I say: every other page I'm on

[Hook]
You need to
Do it like she like, do it like she like it (Sleep around)
Do it like she like, do it like she like it (Sleep around)
Do it like she like, do it like she like it (Sleep around)
Do it like she like it, like it, like it

[Chorus]
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't want to sleep around
Give her what she want when she want
When it come to you, she down

[Post-Chorus]
Sleep around, sleep around
Sleep around, sleep around

[Chorus]
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't want to sleep around
Give her what she want when she want
When it come to you, she down

[Post-Chorus]
Sleep around, sleep around
Sleep around, sleep around

[Hook]
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it

[Outro]
(Sleep around)
(Sleep around)
(Sleep around)
(Sleep around)
(Sleep around)
Do it like she like
Do it like she like
Do it like she like
Do it like she like
Do it like she like
Do it like she like it
Do it like she like
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it
Do it like she like it (Sleep around)

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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