I've been listening to 3121 the past couple of days and this song has always been the highlight of the trip. I've written a couple of blogs on my thoughts.
Only tonight have I come up with a poem in regard to it, but I don't think it quite covers all of the bases yet. So call it a work in progress.

Loneliness, a sadness that knows no end
Despair, an emotion known only by a heart
That had broken too many times

Pure passion drips from his lips
But no voice can reciprocate
The words his speak

An ever-changing world
Represented by a spinning room of mirrors
Shattered by a pain that cuts too deep

Two personas sing side by side
Recalling every emotion within one heart
Love, lust, pain, and despair
He desperately seeks the one who’s able to care
For a lonely musician, torn in two by a single song
Seeking the one with whom he belongs

In anguish, loneliness, and fear
Shed by sad and angry tears
When all is done, he falls to his knees
Only to shoot awake and realize it was all a dream

Feel free to discuss this masterpiece of a song. The best he's written in a long time and is only rivaled by Somewhere Here on Earth and a couple others.

BEAUTIFUL!



The song is great. Love the Climax....Prince screaming in lust / love / and anger is hottttt.

paisleypark4 said:

When I first heard the ending, I honestly thought it was anger but since coming to this site, people called it passion. Are they considered coming from the same type of raw emotions?

It's beautiful

The Chocolate Invasion version is better. You really need to listen to both to get the full flavor of the song.
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Two lover's born together and only seperated by the illusion of time, would instill an eternal scream of passion from this lonliness...The Dance, is about the hesitant, impeding return to one another...

Fear and Love are the dance of two hearts that have always been one.

I couldn't stand it when I first heard it. Passion .... anger .... both .... or just frontin!?

Really only felt the soul of 3121 in the last couple of weeks. The Dance now ..... it takes the heart out of my chest, twists it round and slaps it back in.

Ephesians 4:32
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vagabandit said:

Being in a similar situation myself as was the writer, I could really understand where he was coming from and actually said and felt some of those same things too. I relate with this song on a personal level. I'm still dealing with this problem though and praying for direction on what I should do next in my situation. Per the lyrics, "It's not fair."

I want to do things right and sometimes I question if I'm doing the right thing now, am I wrong to feel this way at this point in my life for someone else when I'm not free yet? Is this wrong to have these powerful feelings? What kind of person does that make me?

This was my reaction to "The Dance" that I wrote 2 days ago.

I began "The Dance" by 'playing' the piano notes. I could picture him tossing and turning in his sleep as the strings played. Could almost see him looking in the mirror and turning towards and away from it out of frustration and fear, but I shook that image away. No mirrors yet. During the 2nd verse, he said he was afraid of committment. I figured that this wasn't just about one girl, it was about all of the ones he's been with. I played along with the piano notes. I could picture going crazy on the grand piano as a pianist would at a concert while playing an emotional concerto. Before things start to go crazy, the image is very blurry and I can't figure out at all what I should be seeing. Perhaps it is just a complex set of contradicting emotions and nothing more.

Then comes the climax when it suddenly shifts over to the small, spinning room with mirrors on every one of the 6-8 walls, viewed from above. The room would shift around in a circle in one or both directions as the strings played on. When he screams, he falls to his knees, feeling the pain and heartache... and that's when he wakes up from the nightmare.

vagabandit said:

Snipped. Not sure if you were really asking a rhetorical question. Keep praying. God bless.
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Allis3112 said:

Well, my situation is very unusual at this moment relationship-wise. I know where my heart is and wants to be and the other relationship is/has been over for a long time now, just not technically according to laws. I feel like I can't and shouldn't put my all into the new one yet until I can resolve the old one first. And the old one is not making it easy for me and granting me freedom, I don't even know where he is at the moment.

vagabandit said:

Just edited my answer then, saw you had replied.

What do you feel right now is the most important thing out of all you have said? Maybe that is where you are currently and the place to work from. Again God Bless. I hope you find peace. I will pray for you if that's OK.

Allis3112 said:

Thanks! It was just my thoughts on the song. But thanks for caring and your thoughts!