Prince

Released: September 30, 2014

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Joshua Welton Prince

[Spoken Intro: Lianne La Havas]
... any person or object, what so ever that requires your attention, is something that has veered from its path and preordained destiny of total enlightenment

[Verse 1: Prince]
Never wanted
A typical life
Scripted role
Huh, trophy wife
All I ever wanted, to be left alone
See my beds made up at night 'cause in my dreams I roam
Just trying to find
Trying to find

[Refrain: Prince & Lianne La Havas]
My way back
Back home

[Verse 2: Prince]
So many reasons why
(There's so many reasons why)
I don't belong here
But now that I am I
(Without fear I am)
Gonna conquer with no fear

[Refrain: Prince & Lianne La Havas]
Until I
(Until I)
Find
(I find my)
My
(My way back)
Way back home
Until I
(Until I)
Find
(I find my)
My
(My way back)
Way back home

(Find my way back home)

[Verse 3: Prince]
Most people in this world
(Most of the people in this world)
Are born dead
But I was born alive
(I was born with this dream)
Dream outside my head (outside my head)

[Refrain: Prince & Lianne La Havas]
That I
(Until I)
Could find my
(I find my)
My
(My way back)
Way back home

My
(Until I)
My
(I find my)
Way
(My way back)
Way back home

[Verse 4: Prince]
Is this the way?
Power to the ones:
Power to the ones who can raise a child like me
The path is set, but if you look the truth will set us free
I've heard about those happy endings, but it's still a mystery
Let me tell you about me
I'm happiest

[Refrain: Prince & Lianne La Havas]
When I can see
(Until I)
(I find my)
(My way back)
My way back home

Can you see
(Until I)
(I find my)
(My way back)
My way back, my way back, home

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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