BorisFishpaw said:

oh thanks, that actually was a comment from Michael 'caption 4 that pic'
Maybe I'll email him your response

All 7 and we'll watch them fall
They stand in the way of love and we will smoke them all
With an intellect and a savoir-faire
No one in the whole universe will ever compare
I am yours now and U are mine
And 2gether we'll love through all space and time
So don't cry
One day all 7 will die

CHORUS

And I saw an angel come down unto me
And in her hand she holds the very key
Words of compassion, words of peace
And in the distance an army's marching feet (Hut 2 3 4, hut 2 3 4)
But behold, we will watch them fall

And we lay down on the sand of the sea
And before us animosity will stand and decree
That we speak not of love, only blasphemy
And in the distance, 6 others will curse me
But that's alright (that's alright), 4 I will watch them fall
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)

CHORUS

(Never grow old)

And we will see a plague and a river of blood
And every evil soul will surely die in spite of
Their 7 tears, but do not fear
4 in the distance, 12 souls from now
U and me will still be here - we will still be here

There will be a new city with the streets of gold
The young so educated they never grow old
And ah… there will be no death 4 with every breath
The voice of many colors sings a song that's so bold
Sing it while we watch them fall (Fall)

CHORUS

(Never grow old) {x3}

this era gave us the HITS collection and a couple of cool photos


September 14. 1993

Oh, oh

In a deep sleep I fell
And the music starts 2 swell
One of my ribs He took and it shall be
Bone of my bones (Bone of my bones)
And God created woman

And we were naked and did not care
There's a time 2 take and a time 2 share
2 in love all around and all aware
Flesh of my flesh (Flesh of my flesh)
And God created woman

Temptation sweet and so much (Sweet and so much)
Surely die if neither one of us shall ye touch (Shall ye touch)
Then again we could die from the rush (Rush)
Heart of my heart (Heart of my heart)
And God created woman (Woman)

Oh (oh), woman (woman)
My, my, my… woman

In my darkest hour I find
Many serpents who have lied (Lies)
Given half the chance still I'd run 2 your side (Run 2 your side)
Love of my love (Love of my love)
God created woman (Woman)

And if I never see U again
It's alright, 4 I am guilty of no sin
They can have U but I'll have your love in the end
Soul of my soul (Soul of my soul)
God created woman {x3} (Woman {repeat})

Flesh of my flesh
Soul (Woman)
Soul (God created, God created woman)
God created, God created woman {x2}
Yeah, God created woman

© 1992 Controversy Music - ASCAP

Released November 18, 1993
Recorded Olympic Studios, London, June 1992

Peach is a song by Prince from his 1993 compilations, The Hits 2 and The Hits/The B-Sides.

The B-side was the live version of "Nothing Compares 2 U" in the U.S., while the UK backed the song with an edit of "My Name Is Prince". In addition, the UK issued two CD singles for "Peach", each backed by hits not on the collection. The first disc contained "Peach", "Mountains", "Partyman", and "Money Don't Matter 2 Night". The second disc contained "Peach", along with "I Wish U Heaven", "Girls & Boys", and "My Name Is Prince". The first disc was sold in a special fold-out collector's case with a place holder for the second disc, which was sold separately.



Uh-oh, here she come
She got them gold hot pants on again
Yeah man
I wanna talk, but I don't know her
She's a peach

She was dark - she was tan
She made me glad 2 be a man
She was young - she was smart
Just one glance and she stole my heart
The kinda girl U wanna teach
She's a peach

Summertime, feelin' fine
Gettin' wild all that's on my mind
Here she come dressed in red
Get her done is all that's in my head
Her hot pants can't hide her cheeks
She's a peach

Hey

She was pure, every ounce
I was sure when her titties bounced
Every way she's a winner
Turn a gay preacher 2 a sinner
No one U want your mama meet
She's a peach

(Look at that girl playin' hard 2 get)

I would die if I kissed her
I would try, but I'm last on her list
She's so cool and I'm so ugly
I'd be a fool 2 think she could love me
This kinda girl's always outta reach
She's a peach

Hey
She's a peach
Hey

Fuck with that

© 1993 Controversy Music - ASCAP

OldFriends4Sale said:

I was at the show where Peach was premiered. Glam Slam Minneapolis/Act 1 warm up show on Feb. 18, 1993.

This album is a masterpiece someday people will appreciate it. the production is a killer, songwriting excellent.
once somebody heard the track my name is prince in a shop and he said to his friend what the fuck is this. now that's what i love about prince most people don't understand his music.
i still prefare prince's music over others.

The album cover proclaims "Prince: 1958–1993", indicating that Prince had "died" in 1993, and was reborn under his Love Symbol alias. The church depicted in the background of the record's cover is the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. The outtakes from the photoshoot for the cover of the album were released a year before in The Sacrifice of Victor, Prince's first book.

Released August 16, 1994
Recorded 1991–1994
Paisley Park Studios, Chanbassen, MN; The Record Plant, Los Angeles; Larrabee Sound Studios, Los Angeles

1. Come – 11:13
2. Space – 4:28
3. Pheromone – 5:08
4. Loose! – 3:26
5. Papa – 2:48
6. Race – 4:28
7. Dark – 6:10
8. Solo (Prince/David Henry Hwang) – 3:48
9. Letitgo – 5:32
10. Orgasm – 1:39

Airiq Anest – programming
Michael Bland (as Michael B.) – drums
Tommy Barbarella – performer
Jearlyn Steele Battle – sampling
Kathleen Bradford – background vocals
Chronic Freeze – engineer, mastering, mixing
Brian Gallagher – horn
Tom Garneau – assistant
Ray Hahnfeldt – engineer, mixing
Kimm James – assistant
Dave Jensen – horn
Kathy Jensen – horn
Eric Leeds – flute
Mayte – background vocals
Micah Nelson – horn
Ricky Peterson – keyboards
Prince – arranger, composer, vocals, background vocals, producer, engineer, mixing
Steve Strand – horn
Sonny T. – performer
Tom Tucker – engineer, mixing



Most of the songs from the Come album were recorded in early 1993 during a highly prolific time for Prince. An early collection of tracks included: "Come", "Endorphinmachine", "Space", "Pheromone", "Loose", "Papa", "Dark", and "Poem". It was unknown at this time if these tracks were indeed intended for an album. In late May 1993, Prince's then band member, Mayte Garcia, sent a letter to a Prince fanzine listing the above tracks, plus a few others: "Interactive", "Peach", "Pope", "Solo", and "Race". Most of these songs were newly written, except "Peach" (written in 1992), and "Race" (written in 1991 during the Love Symbol album sessions - it uses a scratching sound effect similar to Love Symbol's "The Continental").

After Prince's name change to an unpronounceable symbol, he intended to release new songs under that moniker in formats other than albums. He would fulfill his contract to Warner Bros. by delivering unreleased material from his music vault. Prince conceived an "interactive musical experience" called Glam Slam Ulysses - a musical loosely based on Homer's Odyssey. Thirteen tracks were selected and premiered as the first new material from Prince. These songs and many others would travel back and forth between different concepts of albums in a relatively short frame of time. The Dawn was a triple-album concept. The track listing is unknown, but the idea was scrapped for single album releases. Some of these ended up on Come, and some on a new album called The Gold Experience. There was also an idea floating around for The Beautiful Experience that took on various forms before its final release as a maxi single.

On March 6, 1994, Prince submitted a tape of eight songs to Dutch radio stations which included the song "Pheromone." Five days later, he submitted the first version of the Come album to Warner Bros. The album consisted of: "Poem", "Interactive", "Endorphinemachine", "Space", "Pheromone", "Loose", "Papa", "Race", "Dark", "Solo", and "Strays of the World". This version of the album has been leaked, and is commonly known as the Come Test Pressing. Interestingly, the title track was absent. Warner Bros. rejected this version, asking for the title track and some other new material, such as the recent hit "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". Prince tooled with the title track, creating an 11-minute horn-boosted sexual romp. He added it to the album and resubmitted it to Warner Bros., and they agreed to it.

Prince changed the album once again, removing the more rock-oriented tracks "Interactive", "Endorphinemachine", and "Strays of the World". He broke up "Poem" into segues throughout the album, with the remainder retitled as "Orgasm", and also included the newly-written track "Letitgo". This final version was submitted to Warner Bros. on the same day as a configuration of The Gold Experience. Prince wanted them to release both albums simultaneously, so the Prince material would compete with the one released under the symbolic moniker in the charts (with the latter having more commercial material). Warner Bros. accepted both albums, but refused to release them both at the same time.

The guitar sound on "Orgasm" is a sample of a feedback guitar solo from a previous Prince track, "Private Joy" from his 1981 album Controversy. The moaning on "Orgasm" is that of Vanity, recorded in 1983 for the unreleased track "Vibrator". In the liner notes, Vanity is credited as "she knows".

Upon release, Come received little support from Prince, who derided the album as "old material", despite the fact that many of the tracks had been recorded during the same sessions that produced The Gold Experience. Since Prince placed the more up-tempo and commercial material from these sessions on The Gold Experience, the overall tone of Come is somewhat dark and experimental in nature. As it stands, the album is an interesting look inside Prince's mind, and one of his most sensual and foreboding albums; perhaps more so than The Black Album. Despite Prince's apparent marketing neglect, Come performed moderately well, reaching #15 in the U.S., going gold and receiving heavy R&B airplay with the single "Letitgo". In the UK, the album was a huge hit, debuting at #1. Prince also released two maxi singles in support of the album.

This is becoming one of my favorite eras; it's his best of the 90s, IMO.
good look. good band. great music. Prince was kinda badass during this period too.

Come is a great album. It's probably his most underrated though! I think the sequencing is really good especially, Come-Space-Pheromone.

My favorite song from this album.
I love it's 90's airy feel. I appreciate the use of the linn
on this song.



prince's 1994 5 cut cd maxi single 'space' from his 1994 cd 'come'


Space

T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on
Switching command 2 internal {x2}
Missile and new count in sync?
Affirmative
Ready
Check
Affirmative {x2}

(Space)

I never been one 2 hide my feelings
Baby, U blow my mind
I painted your face upon my ceiling
I stare at it all the time (I...)
Imagine myself inside your bedroom (Oh I...)
Imagine myself in your sky (U...)
U are the reason there's bass in my boom (Oh U...)
U are the reason I'm high

BRIDGE:
If U and I were just 10 feet closer
Then I'd make U understand
That everything I wanna do 2 your body, baby
I would do 2 your hand
Then U'd be hip 2 the deep rush
Deeper than the boom of the bass
With every other flick of the pink plush
The closer we get 2 the space

(The space) {x3}
Don't U want 2 go?
(The space) - Where the souls go
(The space) - Where the tears flow
(The space) - Where the love grows
Do U want 2 go?

I never been one 4 this thing obsession
But just keep your eye on my hips
The circles they make will be my confession
Just say the word and I'll strip
I've had dreams of us cuddling on the planet Mars
Then when I wake up, ooh, I'm all covered in sex
With eyes that fall somewhere between rubies and stars
Don't look at me, baby, or I'll flex

BRIDGE

(The space) - Go
(The space) - Flow
(The space) - Grow
Do U want 2 go?
(The space) - Where the souls go
(The space) - Where the tears flow
(The space) - Where the love grows
Do U want 2 go?

Bass

T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on (The space)
Switching command 2 internal {x2}
Missile and new count in sync?
Affirmative
Ready {x2}
Check {x2}
Affirmative

(The space) {x2}
Closer we get 2 the space
(The space) {repeat 2 fade)

© 1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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Come
Lie down beneath my shadow
Lie down beneath my shadow with great delight
And your fruit will be sweet 2 me
Come

My left hand under your head
While my right embraces time
Therein, my virgin, love's wine

Dark

So dark, so dark (Dark) {x2}

Inside lookin' out my window
I don't see nothin' but rain
Sun up in the sky just-a-shinin' (Just-a-shinin')
Still I'm lost in my shadow of pain (Mm-hmm)

Like an innocent man that's on death row
I don't understand what made U go
And wanna leave me, baby
Leave me in the dark
Can U tell me, (said) tell me?

U took my sex and my money (Money)
Took all my self-esteem, yes U did
U had the nerve 2 think it was funny (Funny)
I never knew a bitch so mean, yes sir

U absolutely drove a man 2 tears
All I really know is that U sincerely
Wanna hurt me, baby
Oh, yes U do
U wanna hurt me in the dark

Sunshine - Somebody make the sun shine
Dark cloud - Somebody take this dark cloud away

Just as sure as Noah built the ark (That's how sure)
That's how sure I am U broke my heart

How could U, baby, leave me in the dark?
Baby, it's so dark
So dark, so dark (Dark)

Feel like the sun ain't never gonna shine
U left me in the dark
So dark, so dark (Dark)
I don't know, I don't know why we ever had 2 part
Baby, can't see a damn thing out my window, it's so dark
So dark, so dark (Dark)

Sometimes I want 2 curse the ground U walk on
Even when I know that everything U feel, I feel it 2

I wanna curse U, baby
Ooh, U left me in the dark
And now I want 2 curse U, baby (I wanna curse U, baby)
4 leavin' me alone, alone, alone (U left me in the dark)
Oh, yes U did
And now all I wanna say is
In the dark
Ow! U left me {x2}

It's like being on death row (In the dark)
I don't understand why U had 2 go
I don't understand why U (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why U (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why U hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, hurt me here!
Just leave me (In the dark)
(In the dark)

So dark, so dark (Dark) (In the dark)
So dark, so dark (Dark)
(In the dark)
© 1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP

Come is really great, a part from Orgasm I love this album a lot....

the pic in the sleeve of a dead Prince on the floor is a little bizarre though.

thedance said:

Do you have that photo?

[Edited 3/12/10 9:50am]

True or False?

The Tora Tora Experience
At the height of his troubles with Warner Bros. Records in 1994, Prince contributed as "Tora Tora" on the NPG's Exodus album. Happy with this pseudonym, a full album was recorded as Tora Tora, but it remains unreleased. Very little is known about this project, but it was mentioned on the 1995 "Sampler Experience" cassette by the tracks "(Lemme See Your Body) Get Loose!", a remix of "Loose!" from Prince's 1994 Come album.

OldFriends4Sale said:

I have just checked the cd booklet, it's there. Prince playing "dead"...

at least that's what I make out of the pic.

from sleevographia:

Arrogance

Why are U so arrogant?

(Here he is)
Yeah (Here… here he is)
Ha, ha, ha (Here… here… here he is)

What make a man wanna rule the world?
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
Make him man enough 2 say he 50-50 girl
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
What make a man wanna curse and swear?
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
Then blame it on heaven cuz he already there

Pimp rag, tootsie pop and a cane!

What make a man wanna play guitar?
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
Same thing that make him wanna be a star
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
What make him wanna see his name in lights?
(A double A double arrogance!) (U got it)
It was the same thing that made Eve take the first bite

Pimp rag, tootsie pop and a cane!

{Crowd noise in BG}
(There he is - get him!)
(Don't make me get up)

Like a flame she came and I was no longer cold

That's a little shady
4 this lady was only 16 years old

© 1992 Controversy Music - ASCAP

this is better:

Love that album, 3 chains o gold especially has grown on me. I find Symbol is best listened to its entirety, it really was a rock opera unfloding and the good part, is I think Prince (Victor) and the crown princess of Cairo won.
Remember there r no kings in this world, only Princes.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Thank you for posting these, I found my self singing along with lyrics, voice tones and all, I love the lyric "I'm all covered in sex".
Also Dark is one my absolute favourites, the Artist was in rare form when he did that. Its up there with Adore, really hes a master at soulful seduction type ballads.

thedance said:

Sweet Baby
Close your eyes, sweet baby
Now don't U cry
Everybody get their heart broke
Sweet baby, sometime
So he left U 4 another fool
Yes, a fool
4 lovin' him from the start
Ask yourself what's more important:
Him or the broken pieces of your heart?
Sweet baby

Stand tall (Tall), sweet baby (Baby), don't U fall (Fall, fall, fall)
U ain't the only one gettin' beat down
It happens 2 us all
The road U chose 2 walk in this life
Is a one that leads into the next
So, sweet baby, stand tall, stand tall
(Sweet, sweet, sweet) Sweet baby

Sweet baby hold your tears back now
Better days gonna come your way soon, oh yeah, sweet baby
Someway, somehow
Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet baby
Sweet baby

Walk faster, sweet baby
Don't let those bad boys catch U now
Those things that they would have U do
U been done known better, oh and how
How can U sleep knowing that U and a fool
Sing in the same key
Walk faster, sweet baby
Strive 2 be the very best U can be (Sweet baby)
Sweet baby
Oh, sweet baby

Sweet baby, hold your tears back now
Better days g'on come your way soon
Oh yeah, sweet baby, someway somehow

Oh sweet baby
Better day g'on come your way
Yeah!
Sweet baby
[Edited 3/13/10 16:46pm]