The Dance Electric

Good morning children
Take a look out your window
Our world is falling
It's almost time 2 go

(Dance)

Dance the Dance Electric
The rhythm is love and love is blind
Love your enemies
There isn't much time, there isn't much time

Look - our world is falling
A rhythm-less house of blinded prophecy
Hear our Master calling
This isn't what He wanted us 2 be

We got 2 dance the Dance Electric
Listen 2 the rhythm of your soul
Come on and dance the Dance Electric
We better love each other, it's almost time 2 go

Don't - it don't make U happy
2 give another someone your own smile
Dance the dance electric
Never mind your hatred, try a brand new style

Dance the Dance Electric
Listen 2 the rhythm of your soul
U got 2 dance the Dance Electric
We better love each other, it's almost time 2 go

We... love... all... enemies

Look - U're livin' in Babylon
Makin', but not feelin' love at all
When your youth is gone, when it comes 2 dawn
A light of truth will shine and U will fall

That's why U got 2 dance the Dance Electric
Listen 2 the rhythm of your soul
U got 2 dance the Dance Electric
We better love each other, it's almost time 2 go

See the light inside of us
U're stuck in living, livin' life as bad
Whatever U do, don't U let your life go without my love
It's the only life that U will ever have

Why don't U (dance) dance the Dance Electric?
Listen 2 the rhythm of your soul
Why don't U dance the Dance Electric?
We better love each other, it's almost time 2 go (almost time 2)

Dance the Dance Electric
Listen 2 the rhythm of your soul
Come on and dance the Dance Electric
We better love each other, it's almost time 2 go

^ that's one of my fave Prince songs,

Babylon, I'm not religious at all, but this is a region in the middle east, right?

why is Prince using this several times in his lyrics

Maybe some of you religious can teach me, (thanks)....

Also the Babylon reference in THE WAR, CINNAMON GIRL & SILICON lyrics.

[Edited 7/20/10 13:58pm]

The War

(1,2, the evolution will be colorized) {repeated throughout song}

I can't hear U, say it
Y'all ain't ready, I can't hear U, say it

Do like this...

The evolution will be colorized

This is the war... right on!
The war will go on and on and on
If U don't wanna miss your Saturday morning cartoons
1,2, the evolution will be colorized {x2}
Yeah... right on!

Y'all niggas is bad

The war will go on and on
Revolution will be... {x2}
Revolution will be on and on and...

(1,2) {repeated}

War will go on and on
If U do not wish 2 be in the war U should leave now
We are about 2 challenge what U believe
If U do not wish 2 be challenged U should leave now
Saturday morning awaits
Do U love your country? {x2} (Yes)
Do U love God? (Yes)
Do U love your country as much as U love God? (No)
If the government... {x2}
If the government wants 2 put a microchip in your neck, heh heh,
right on!
Do U still love your country? (No)
The war will go on and on
If U do not wish 2 be challenged, leave now
The evolution will be colorized
1,2, the evolution will be colorized

We are running out of the essentials of life:
Oxygen, water, food, fertile earth
Underground right now as we speak, there is a metropolis
Awaiting, waiting... 4 U, me
Clean air, food 2 eat
Will U go, will U go?
Will U go underground 2 this metropolis, this metropolis paradise?
We are running out of the essentials of life here on earth
Will U go, will U go, will U go?
Don't U love your country? (No)
If your country no longer exists on this earth
But exists under this earth, will U go?
Underneath in this metropolis, there's food 2 eat, clean air
It's a paradise
One condition: microchip in your neck
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
Right on!

Would U stay above the metropolis, the microchip city?
Would U stay above and await your fate?
Do U trust your God? (Yeah)
Would U stay on top of the chip and await your fate?
2night U will be challenged, U best leave now
This war will go on and on

2, the evolution will be colorized
1,2
1,2, the evolution will be colorized

Without God there is no country
Without God there is no metropolis
Without God there is no oxygen, there is no food to eat
Without God there is no chocolate microchip 4 your neck

Somebody say it
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
In other words, there'll be a little bit of U and a little bit of me
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
The evolution will be colorized {x2}

1 4 me, 2 4 U
Preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy, I keep the store
Gonna' eat it in the war
I said, 1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy, keep the store
Gonna' eat it in the war

Batter up, pitcher down
What your teachers say, it ain't down
Pledge allegiance 2 your flag
U tie me 2 a truck, 'n' then U drag
1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not a truth
U give me candy and keep the store
U gonna eat it in the war

U give me AIDS, your history
When it comes 2 mine, another name
Many die and this is true
Red, black, yellow, even Jew
Claimin' God was backin' U on a cross, what a fool
1 4 me, 2 4 U
U preach a lie, not the truth
U give me candy, U keep the store
Gonna eat it in the war

Shall I go on? (Yes)
So U say U got a cure?
HIV, I'm not sure
Every seed, fruit 2 bear
The great Babylon, I don't care
We know your name, it's the beast
All of God's child is your feast
When the righteous one plant the seed
No more kids with mama bleed
Only way 2 get there is the truth, y'all
In the war, talkin' 'bout me and U

Come on
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
1,2
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
1,2
1,2, the evolution will be colorized
Play your organ, son

(1,2) {repeated}
1 4 me, 2 4 U
Preach a lie, not the truth
Give me candy, U keep the store
What the hell is goin' on y'all?

There's a mountain that's mighty high
Can't reach the top unless U fly
Ain't about the money, it's about the gold
21st century, money just got sold, y'all
Ya hear me?
Money just got sold, y'all
Check the yen
It's has-been
It's all gone
Your pocketbook is next
It's about the gold y'all

1,2, the evolution will be colorized
1,2, the evolution will be {x2}
The evolution will be
The... evolution... will... be... colorized

(1,2, the evolution will be colorized) {repeated till end}

Cinnamon Girl

As war drums beat in Babylon
Cinnamon Girl starts 2 pray
Eye never heard a prayer like this one
Never b4 that day

Tearful words of love 4 people
She had never met b4
Asking God 2 grant them mercy
In this face of a holy war

Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl

Cinnamon Girl of mixed heritage
Never knew the meaning of color lines
9/11 turned that all around
When she got accused of this crime

So began the mass illusion
War on terror alibi
What's the use when the god of confusion
Keeps on telling the same lie'

Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl

Don't cry, don't shed no tears
One lie won't make us feel
'Cause we know how
This movie's ending

Cinnamon Girl

As war drums beat in Babylon
And scorch the blood red sky
Militants bomb the 4eign guns
Both sides - children die

Cinnamon girl opens the book
She knows will settle all the scores
Then she prays: after the war
That there will not b anymore

Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl

Babylon was a city-state in what is modern day Iraq. The jews of Judah were captives there (circa ~600BC ish IIRC).

Babylonian creation myths are also the basis for many of the same myths in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam etc).

In your cited lyrics above and similar usage - Babylon can refer in general to an enemy or a time when one is in captivity.

In the Bible, Babylon is used to symbolize the land of exile for the Israelites, the people of God. In the Biblical story, they were exiled from their own land and city - Jerusalem - and made to live as foreigners in a strange land that did not worship the true God, YHWH. (If you want to know why this happened, see any of the prohetic books of the Old Testament - Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.)

To say we are living in Babylon now is to say that we are in exile. To a Christian, that means for the time being we live as strangers in the world with its sinful passions. Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalem.

" Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalam." For whom? All I know is the meek shall inherit planet earth forever without any mark or thought of sin with "one nation under a groove", ruled by a theocratic government. That's where I want to reside. Hmmm.

fms said:

In the Bible, Babylon is used to symbolize the land of exile for the Israelites, the people of God. In the Biblical story, they were exiled from their own land and city - Jerusalem - and made to live as foreigners in a strange land that did not worship the true God, YHWH. (If you want to know why this happened, see any of the prohetic books of the Old Testament - Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.)

To say we are living in Babylon now is to say that we are in exile. To a Christian, that means for the time being we live as strangers in the world with its sinful passions. Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalem.

Billmenever said:

" Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalam." For whom? All I know is the meek shall inherit planet earth forever without any mark or thought of sin with "one nation under a groove", ruled by a theocratic government. That's where I want to reside. Hmmm.

fms said:

In the Bible, Babylon is used to symbolize the land of exile for the Israelites, the people of God. In the Biblical story, they were exiled from their own land and city - Jerusalem - and made to live as foreigners in a strange land that did not worship the true God, YHWH. (If you want to know why this happened, see any of the prohetic books of the Old Testament - Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.)

To say we are living in Babylon now is to say that we are in exile. To a Christian, that means for the time being we live as strangers in the world with its sinful passions. Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalem.

I really can't believe people, in 2010, still support the concept of a "theocratic" anything.

In Rastafarianism "Babylon" represents the evils of the oppressor and a rejection of Western society.

From this Wiki page on Rastafarianism http://en.wikipedia.org/w...s._Babylon

Zion vs. Babylon

Rastas assert that Zion (i.e., Africa, especially Ethiopia) is a land that Jah promised to them. To achieve this, they reject modern western society, calling it "Babylon", which they see as entirely corrupt.^[6][8][12] "Babylon" is considered to have been in rebellion against "Earth's Rightful Ruler" (Jah) ever since the days of the Biblical king Nimrod.

Rastas claim that they are the real Children of Israel. Another historical viewpoint which seeks to validate this link between Ethiopia, Israel and the Rastafari belief system can be found under the Lion of Judah and their goal is to repatriate to Africa, or to Zion.^{[clarification needed]} (Rasta reggae is peppered with references to Zion; among the best-known examples are the Bob Marley songs '"Zion Train" and "Iron Lion Zion".)

A few interesting quotes from this Wiki page on Babylon http://en.wikipedia.org/w...stament%29

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Babylon represents all false religion (i.e.: that thought to be disapproved of or condemned by God). (Really?)

In the Rastafari movement, Babylon is a key theological concept referring to any oppressive power structure that adherents believe has been responsible for keeping their people poor and oppressed for generations. However it also refers to the literal Tower of Babel, which Haile Selassie sometimes referred to in his speeches, seen as an act of human rebellion against JAH.

Some have referred to the United States as Babylon, and New York as its Whore.

Babylon is an important Rastafari term, referring to human government and institutions that are seen as in rebellion against the rule of God, or in a more general sense, to any system that oppresses or discriminates against the black race. It is a commonly used term in reggae music.

Spinlight said:

Billmenever said:

" Our true home is in the heavenly Jerusalam." For whom? All I know is the meek shall inherit planet earth forever without any mark or thought of sin with "one nation under a groove", ruled by a theocratic government. That's where I want to reside. Hmmm.

I really can't believe people, in 2010, still support the concept of a "theocratic" anything.

Well, they've tried just about every government. Why not try a theocratic government?

Spinlight said:

I really can't believe people, in 2010, still support the concept of a "theocratic" anything.

A lot of people get off on the feel of daddy's arm around their shoulder, and his back hander across their face.

Also, when Prince previewed MPLSoUND to a reporter he called Ol' Skool Company a song 'about Babylonian tricks'.