Getting back to the way things were before all of the success and muic business. And about his diagnosis.

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breakdown2k14 said:

This song and "Affirmation 3" makes me think prince knew he was leaving us...

I think so too.

I waffle between thinking he knew his time was short and knowing he wrote about death/afterlife throughout his career and that this song was not different from previous ones in that regard.

I think recent pictures of him make it difficult for me to think he did not have some underlying condition. Though with age comes awareness of one's mortality even without disease.

Given his religious beliefs, Way Back Home would refer to heaven. Christians, in particular often reference this world as not being their true home. "I don't belong here". He has focused on heaven and God throughout his career. Most people were born dead but he was born "alive". The Truth will set you free. John 8:32

anangellooksdown said:

This song was released on Art Official Age in Sept of 2014. Do you think Prince wrote it in that year or sometime earlier? What have you always felt it was about? Way back home meaning to God? Or to his home he grew up in or another home such as with a woman? I've written some things I interpret in the paragraphs of the lyrics that are confusing to me. Please copy/paste/edit whatever your different interpretations are. Thank you! Any person or object whatsoever That requires your attention Is something that has veered from its path And preordained destiny of total enlightenment ME: anyone who wants attention or anything that disturbs is not on natural spiritual course. OR, people or things that disturb ME require my attention because I'VE veered from my natural spiritual path (although he seems to say the former - confusing!) Could be a paradox. I never wanted a typical life Scripted role, huh a trophy wife All I ever wanted, to be left alone See my bed's made up at night 'Cause in my dreams I roam Just trying to find, trying to find My way back, back home ME: He was just here on earth trying to find his true self so he could go home to God pure as possible. So many reasons why There's so many reasons why I don't belong here But now that I am I Without fear I am Gonna conquer with no fear Until I find my way back home Until I find my way back home (Find my way back home) ME: He's enlightened now (I am that I am) and he's gonna live out his life without fear until he goes home to God. Most people in this world (Most people in this world)are born dead But I was born alive (I was born with this dream) With a dream outside my head (outside my head) That I could find my way back home My, my, way way back home ME: I'll leave the rest up to you guys if you feel you want to comment. Is this the way? (Is this the way?) Power to the ones who could raise a child like me The path was set But if you look the truth will set us free I've heard about those happy endings But it's still a mystery Lemme tell you about me I'm happiest when I can see My way back home Can you see My way back, my way back home -Prince Rogers Nelson [Edited 6/20/16 17:52pm]

I don't know why but it makes me think of Jesus. I've been feeling a lot of similarities between the 2 of them, maybe that's why I can't stop crying, we had something really special here in our time and now he's gone from us.

mimi1956 said:

morningsong said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/425379
http://prince.org/msg/7/411063

http://prince.org/msg/7/410878
http://prince.org/msg/7/423669
http://prince.org/msg/7/426058
http://prince.org/msg/7/423379
http://prince.org/msg/7/411114

One or all of the above posts might help the OP.

(I was born with this dream)
With a dream outside my head (outside my head)

To me, "outside my head" means he was born with God's dream inside his head. The vision did not come from his own mind.

In Affirmation 3, the lyrics say "you were separate from not only others, but even from yourself" and "Remember there really is only one destination, and that place is U
All of it, everything is U"

...Therefore, the destination back home is you. To "return home" to the "destination of you", I think it touches on the 'everyone is one' spiritual concept of the perfect version of ourselves before we became corrupted by the evils of the world.

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"I am happiest when I can see"

This one is fairly obvious, but I would like to point it out for emphasis that his final twitter display picture was a version of himself with his physical eyes closed and his mind's eye open... so he passed away at a time when he could "see" and was at his happiest.

It's a great song, but like a lot of Prince's philosophical and spiritual musings in the past decade and a half, there's often a condescending tone that doesn't translate in the same way that some earlier works did.

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There's introspection and vulnerability here too though, which I greatly appreciated when I first heard it - I'd been longing for years to hear something other than the transparent bravado which became very tiresome, I was hoping we were going to get more like 'Way Back Home' in the future.

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Prince has always written lyrics about his life, and clearly he was very troubled - but all this "he knew he was leaving us" garbage doesn't jive with me.

A condescending tone?

That's because of your point of view.

I understood exactly what he was saying.

Everyone is on a destination to the grave.

Prince went back home.

muleFunk said:

A condescending tone?

That's because of your point of view.

You think it's my pov, because of your own pov. We can do this all day....

https://onevoice4peace.co...back-home/

I had written the above blog about that song before...I had tweeted the link to him, and then he retweeted my comment about the Atlanta shows, and someone else tweeted the links to my blog in reply to him, I'd like to think he might have read it.

wildgoldenhoney said:

Iamtheorg said:

Maybe not having a balance between fame and creativity. His fame caused isolation and the thing he loved the most, his art, created his fame. Going home would be a place that he could create and still have freedom to be himself without the entrapments of fame.

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benni said:

TrevorAyer said:

Most people are born shaped and molded to be worker clones with no real decision making ability no real dreams no belief in themselves poisoned by flouride which numbs the will and creates complacency.... Prince was born alive with the ability to live who he believes he is ... And make that dream manifest in reality ... Most people live someone elses dream ... The work to build someone elses empire .. They have ZERO freedom tho they think otherwise ... The breakdown and time are both related to way back home ... Give me back the time u can keep the memories ... Regrets of leaving home caught up in babylon the devils play ground prince was ... Trying to find his way back to his dream ... Lost himself in ego and pride he did .. His dream was decomposing .. Music became shallow superficial ... Lost his dream lost himself ...

Makes sense to me. Falls in line with destroying older masters. Wanting to rewrite older material. And so on.

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Either Ida or Prince mentioned Astral Travel in those deleted tweet conversations, interesting that nobody has mentioned it or connected it to Way Back Home. Not surprise, only the enlighten one get it.

Inasenselost said:

benni said:

https://onevoice4peace.co...back-home/

I had written the above blog about that song before...I had tweeted the link to him, and then he retweeted my comment about the Atlanta shows, and someone else tweeted the links to my blog in reply to him, I'd like to think he might have read it.

benni, this blog post, like so many of your org posts, is beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this.

Thank you! It is one of my faves by Prince. It still brings me to tears every time I hear it. Just to have the fearlessness that man did to proclaim he was born alive, fully self-aware, is just astounding to me. To be *that* awake to make that proclamation - amazing. He is beautiful.

Again as I have said countless times, WE DON'T KNOW. You can say he didn't know his time was short and someone else will say he knew for sure. As with all art it is up to the listener or those observing to get something from it, if that is what you get than cool, others may not and that is cool too. BUT nothing is gospel, because the person with the answers to these questions is gone, and sorry but he left no answers.

NouveauDance said:

muleFunk said:

A condescending tone?

That's because of your point of view.

You think it's my pov, because of your own pov. We can do this all day....

What about the song is condescending?