AnnaStesia10 said:

Oh man PurpleEmotions, your story really got to me. I was blasting Adore today listening to the full SOTT album and so love this song it's a big part of my childhood. So it made me sad to hear this one got these sad emotions outta you. As other purple fam have stated, you are not alone we all feel your pain and are with you. I miss him completely and still cannot believe he is gone. In order to feel him I need to play his music every single day and I wake up to some random Prince song in my head. To this day I still cannot hear Sometimes It Snows In April without balling my eyes out. I just wanted to say my heart goes out to you, and anyone else who is hurting and missing Prince.

It will be a very long time before I listen to Adore again. It gives me so much comfort knowing there are people feel the same as I do about his passing. We'll get through this together

LRCdancer88 said:

PurpleEmotion I feel you on everything you've said. I still cry about his passing. It just doesn't seem real to me. So many of his songs bring me to tears, including "Sometimes it Snows in April" and the instrumental last half of "Purple Rain". It all just doesn't feel right. His life was so fully lived and he did so much for the world in so many ways. I hope that he knew how much he was loved and that he knows now how much we miss him and try to honor him in our daily lives. I have a suspicion that he lived his life as fully as he knew how and that he was comfortable with his mortality, knowing that we all can leave this earth at any time. He was a man of great faith, talent, and heart that I try to emulate in my day to day life. I think that's what he would want us to do. I have found the org to be my therapy, and it is so helpful to come here and see that I'm not alone in my grief.

Agreed

purpleemotions said:

AnnaStesia10 said:

Oh man PurpleEmotions, your story really got to me. I was blasting Adore today listening to the full SOTT album and so love this song it's a big part of my childhood. So it made me sad to hear this one got these sad emotions outta you. As other purple fam have stated, you are not alone we all feel your pain and are with you. I miss him completely and still cannot believe he is gone. In order to feel him I need to play his music every single day and I wake up to some random Prince song in my head. To this day I still cannot hear Sometimes It Snows In April without balling my eyes out. I just wanted to say my heart goes out to you, and anyone else who is hurting and missing Prince.

It will be a very long time before I listen to Adore again. It gives me so much comfort knowing there are people feel the same as I do about his passing. We'll get through this together

Funny how different songs affect different folks differently...I went through a period recently where I was listening to every live version I could find of P singing Adore cuz he talks to the audiences as he plays. I found that very comforting.

ya, i'm listening to a later (2009?) performance and Prince is just being Prince, bitching about the sound, telling the audience to call the owners and bitch, telling people not to take pictures because he can't play when they do and my eyes got watery. I thought once again, like I have with anyone I've lost, how you even miss the bad parts of a person so much that they seem good (and smile inducing).

PeteSilas said:

AnnaStesia91 said:

PeteSilas said:

ya, i'm listening to a later (2009?) performance and Prince is just being Prince, bitching about the sound, telling the audience to call the owners and bitch, telling people not to take pictures because he can't play when they do and my eyes got watery. I thought once again, like I have with anyone I've lost, how you even miss the bad parts of a person so much that they seem good (and smile inducing).

Awe man God love him. He was so extra

How else should a diva act?

luvgirl said:

When I first found out that he past, I Was literally in a state of shock. I didn't cry at all. I walked around in a daze. I was just numb and kept thinking to myself that I felt weird. My sister who knew I was a huge Prince fan told me she couldn't believe how well I was taking it. But I was only pretending to be strong. When I woke up the next morning, as soon as I opened my eyes and realized that it was a world without Prince, a horrible sadness grasp hold of me and the shock wore off. I was devastated. I couldn't stop crying for weeks. ( still do if a breeze blows the wrong way) Even when I kept telling myself that I didn't know him personally, the tears didn't give a damn. They just kept coming day after day... I didnt even want my sister to know I was still crying, It was starting to get embarrassing. I still don't even fully understand why Prince death has affected me the way it does. Never in my life has another celebrity's death affected me to the point of tears, but never in my life have I cared for another celebrity the way I did for Prince. I guess it's because he was really like a friend and not a celebrity at all. A friend I'd know from afar since my pre-teen years. Since 1984. It definitely helps to talk about it this way, and I look for every opportunity to express my feelings on how his loss has affected me because its an aide to healing, so thanks for sharing. Talk about it as much as you like for your sake, and the ones that needs the aide as well... [Edited 12/3/16 13:05pm]

I was in shock too. My friend texted me that she had seen Prince died. I was having a good day, going about my business and thought hey i haven't check my phone in a while let's see if anybody called. I didn't believe her, so I pulled up my internet and there it was. I couldn't even speak! I went outside to tell my husband that some terrible happened, he was giving the kids a ride on the 4-wheeler. I said Prince died. And I just brown down and started bawling. I turned on the TV to watch CNN and it that was what they were talking. I watched it in disbelief thinking that it's a hoax, he can't really be gone. I still listen to his music when I'm in the car. I still have moment when it brings tears to my eyes. But I've finally came to a place where it can make me smile most of the time, knowing how happy I am that I was able to experience everything that he'd given us.

"Prince is just being Prince"...

LMAO

How many times over the years have I tried to explain to a non-fan something P did and those were the only words I came up with?

Lawd

If I had a penny for every time, I'd be rich af.

Welcome. And thank U 4 posting.

Just this week, while driving my Son to school and listening to some Prince... it caught me off guard all over again and knocked the wind out of me.

Music is something that is a weird contradiction in that it is something that by its very nature is enjoyed IN THE MOMENT... more so than any other thing humans can create... yet it generates more emotion pulled from memory more than anything else, along with scents, in my opinion.

So I was jamming out, grinning like an idiot, in a great mood.. so grateful for the talent.. and BOOM. That talent is no longer here with us. He's gone. That well of so much music and spiritual depth has no more water to give. And it sucks. It hurts.

If you're like me you took for granted that there was ALWAYS new music or new music to look forward to. And his timelessness only added to that sense of 4ever. But no more. And it was a cruel departure we could not have been sufficiently prepared for.

This community has continued to be a blessing in the face of that loss. Thank U.

purpleemotions said:

It feels nice knowing others understand why I feel sad about his passing. Thank you all for the comforting comments.

I have yet to make it through a whole song....any song.

Lovejunky said:

Welcome....

We all know how you feel...and even after all this time, the separation pain can catch you...

I sobbed Today...

I found this

YOUTUBE~Prince - I Can't Love You Anymore From I'll Do Anything soundtrack unreleased

Had never actually heard it and I lost it again..

His Falsetto is something else...it grabs your heart and wrings it right out...

Im so sick of being dehydrated

Wow. Thanks, Lovejunky! I couldn't listen to the whole thing because I have family around and I felt an ugly cry coming. I'll try again when I have some time alone tomorrow.

Hi, purpleemotions! I know exactly how you feel. I was totally unprepared for Prince's passing, and even more unprepared for the force of my emotions. Just like yours and many of ours, my friends and family don't understand. Truth be told, I can't understand it either, but I no longer ask why. It just is what it is. And, I'm going to take as much time as I need to process this loss. I don't know what I would have done without theOrg. BTW: I'm a newbie, too. Welcome to the Purpleness!!

FlyOnTheWall said:

Hi, purpleemotions! I know exactly how you feel. I was totally unprepared for Prince's passing, and even more unprepared for the force of my emotions. Just like yours and many of ours, my friends and family don't understand. Truth be told, I can't understand it either, but I no longer ask why. It just is what it is. And, I'm going to take as much time as I need to process this loss. I don't know what I would have done without theOrg. BTW: I'm a newbie, too. Welcome to the Purpleness!!

FlyOnTheWall said:

Lovejunky said:

Welcome....

We all know how you feel...and even after all this time, the separation pain can catch you...

I sobbed Today...

I found this

YOUTUBE~Prince - I Can't Love You Anymore From I'll Do Anything soundtrack unreleased

Had never actually heard it and I lost it again..

His Falsetto is something else...it grabs your heart and wrings it right out...

Im so sick of being dehydrated

Wow. Thanks, Lovejunky! I couldn't listen to the whole thing because I have family around and I felt an ugly cry coming. I'll try again when I have some time alone tomorrow.

Welcome..its all a bittersweeet Painful pleasure and a Melancholy Joy...

Ive had a few Cries...Currently VERY addicted to this song ..the Tears are BEAUTiFUL tho..

Lovejunky said:

Welcome....

We all know how you feel...and even after all this time, the separation pain can catch you...

I sobbed Today...

I found this

YOUTUBE~Prince - I Can't Love You Anymore From I'll Do Anything soundtrack unreleased

Had never actually heard it and I lost it again..

His Falsetto is something else...it grabs your heart and wrings it right out...

Im so sick of being dehydrated

Lovely song very comforting. Thx

ForeverPaisley said:

wavesofbliss said:

ditto. i seem to have blocked it out again. sometimes it's all over me, sometimes if feels miles away.

I feel this exactly. We'll get through it, together.

yes we will.