The next Saturday evening I composed a 10 pages poem about 9/11 while listening to The War in a loop for about 3 or 4 hours. So to me The War will always be related to 9/11.

Prince's mixtape (NPG Ahdio Show) about 9/11 was a beautiful, wordless statement about/answer to it, too

SNIP -please take any further issues with 911 to the P&R forum

Please stay on topic

-OF4S

And what the hell does Prince music have to do with 911 anyway??

FUNKYNESS said:

I was done with giving a damn about 911 tone year after it happened. America has to move on. The overly sensitive PC culture that has infected America is making it weak. Americans used to mourn and then shake it off and get back to greatness. Now we sit around and cry like bitches constantly

If you have a problem with the OP post why post in it?
They are not asking for a 911 conspiracy debate. All they are simply asking is
Which Prince songs might sum up how you feel on 9/11
Stay on topic please.

We have Labor Day, 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day

I think the closest Prince songs connected with this day is Cinnamon Girl

the dramatic video directed by Phil Harder, for Prince's new song "Cinnamon Girl," is causing quite a stir before it's even been released. The tone in this video is more serious, as it follows the hardships of a teen Arab-American girl in a post 9-11 America. The clip features Oscar-nominated New Zealand star Keisha Castle-Hughes as an Arab-American girl who is fed up with the anti-Arab sentiments she encounters in everyday life. The video is shot as a black & white video colored in in sepia and yellow tones.

What is causing all of the controversy is a scene where, disillusioned and angered, Castle-Hughes' character detonates a bomb in an airport terminal, exploding herself and others. But a reverse motion immediately following the explosion reveals that it is only a thought of hers. Prince, who only appears in the video intermittently, sings, "Cinnamon girl mixed heritage / Never knew the meaning of color lines / 9-11 turned that all around / When she got accused of this crime."

Prince says he hopes the video will get viewers thinking about the racial prejudice that still exists in many segments of American culture.

While the New York Post described the video as the most tasteless ever, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has praised the video for bringing attention to the discrimination faced by Arab-Americans since 9/11.

release date

November 16, 2004

Cinnamon Girl

As war drums beat in Babylon
Cinnamon Girl starts 2 pray
I'd never heard a prayer like this one
Never before that day

Tearful words of love 4 people she had never met before
Asking God 2 grant them mercy in this phase of holy war

Cinnamon Girl

Cinnamon Girl

Cinnamon Girl of mixed heritage
Never knew the meaning of color lines
911 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 fear
Cuz we know how this movie's ending

Cinnamon Girl

As war drums beat in Babylon
And scorch the blood red sky
Militants bomb the foreign gun
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 be any more

Cinnamon Girl

Cinnamon Girl

Cinnamon Girl

Don't worry, baby, it's gon' be alright, yeah

Cinnamon Girl

© 2004 Emancpated Music — ASCAP

Prince

Cinammon Girl CD Single

Cinnamon Girl was the third single from the Musicology CD and was released after the tour. We released this version independently on our own, separate from Sony. Prince filmed an amazing video for the song with Phil Harder and starring Keisha Castle-Hughes which we featured in an enhanced part of the CD along with a behind-the-scenes clip. The package used images from the beautiful video.

UK/German CD single

1. "Cinnamon Girl" – 3:56
2. "Dear Mr. Man" (Live at Webster Hall) – 4:14
3. "United States of Division" – 6:18
4. "Dear Mr. Man" (Live at Webster Hall Video) – 4:14

The single has been released in multiple formats. On September 6, 2004, the European CD-single was released with four tracks: "Cinnamon Girl" (Album version), "Dear Mr. Man" (live at Webster Hall) "United States of Division" (which was previously available only as a download) and an MPEG video of the "Dear Mr. Man" performance. Two weeks later, a similar single was released, but without the video. In November of the same year, Prince's NPG Music Club online retail store sold an Enhanced CD including the audio track, its music video, the lyrics and a 5-minute segment of interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.

release date

November 16, 2004

'Free'

1999

Like a Mack.........but only the Curly Fryz rap verses.

Cinnamon Girl wasn't such a strong song mucically but the video was one of his best.

The AHDIO show was a great touch.

In his discography, I agree Free is perhaps my go-to musical medicine.

Sign O The Times.

And of course the '2001, also sprach zahratustra' live from Utrecht Tivoli 1998 after show where he mentioned 'Bin Laden get ready to bomb' as if he knew it would happen.