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"A new song has been played in Vegas called "Shadows & Chains"



"from out of the shadows a boat came
came across the ocean for to take our names
from out of their muths, false claims
one hand out to greet us, another holdin a chain"

its fucking great, got a mint little groove through it, a sweet refrain.
mixes with "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac, so U can imagine the groove.

He does a great scream or two too and the guitar solo tears the roof off!!!"

There's been a discussion going on about this song since yesterday in the P&R forum . Someone posted the lyrics over there. Some equate the meaning to "slavery" (referencing the slavery in America/Europe) and some equate it to a biblical slavery reference. I say it's a little bit of both entertwined with each other, very interesting and tricky lyrics..that's just my 2 cents..I guess it's how we all individually interpret it.
[Edited 4/14/07 7:04am]

Nothing really biblical in my mind for me solely because of this line:

came across the ocean for to take our names.

Sounds like American slavery to me. I would like to hear the rest of the song/lyrics.

Cool! Let's hope he puts this song on his next album.

love2thenines2003 said:

From of of the arse, another shite lyric came. I wish Prince would stop trying to sound intelligent and well-read. FUCKING 'IT', BABY!

Family Name part 2.

yeah, please give us superficial lyrical, pop bull-feces, how DARE he try to get "deep" and deal with difficult, ugly issues and their after effects. i like my prince as a one-dimensional sex fiend.