This song is just beautiful I mean it has everything one wants in a Prince song and the extended version is heaven damn eargasm listening to it

nursev said:

JoeyCococo said:

nursev said:

This song is just beautiful I mean it has everything one wants in a Prince song and the extended version is heaven damn eargasm listening to it

Yes....he had it greatness until he las day.when I hear people still talk of Purple Rain, I cringe...this is one of his most incredible. No worries, as the estate has issues with cash, we will see covers, songs in movies etc. It will spark interest in his work again...all of this too great to be forgotten and not discovered. I am confident.

Its just a beautiful song kinda hidden away on Phase Two, but I hope that when we do start to see his music in different projects that they will be worthy of his work.

Sorry its overrated in my opinion, its a good ballad, nothing more , nothing less. Not up there with his very best.

It is a beautiful song. Definately cannot compare with a song like Purple Rain Condition of the Heart Sometimes it Snows In April or Adore

but it is a beautiful song. It has a touch reminicent of what I might hear on a Lovesexy aftershow.

It also reminds me of Somewhere Here On Earth(2009) mixed with Just My Imagination(1989 Lovesexy aftershow)

It goes just a bit too long, but that live affect is nice.

To me this song is top notch Prince. I love it. I was at the party when they did the extended version. I found this article with Prince discussing the song from Ebony magazine:

antonb said:

Sorry its overrated in my opinion, its a good ballad, nothing more , nothing less. Not up there with his very best.

overrated amongst what catalouge? because nothing he has put in the last 10 years has even been on the level to deserve being overrated.

the only albums that the majority of the orgers here "overrate" are planet earth and hitnrun phase 2.

REVELATION is one of his best songs he has released in the last 10 years amongst FUTURE SOUL SOUNG, STICKY LIKE GLUE & DREAMER...

This record is sublime, and its pure classic Prince.

A tear folled out of the my eye on first listen in part due to being touched that Prince was able to creaate something so different and beautiful so late in his career. One of my very favorites.

motherfunka said:

To me this song is top notch Prince. I love it. I was at the party when they did the extended version. I found this article with Prince discussing the song from Ebony magazine:

Prince: When I was doing that, there’d be no way I could hear this. Now I think this is the best stuff. This is “Revelation.” That’s Marcus Anderson on soprano.

EBONY: That moody keyboard effect works.

Prince: When I did the track, it was about an hour and a half of just messing around with the groove. He just kept messing around with programming. When he got that one, it sounded like “U Got the Look.” I said: “That. Stop.” Then he didn’t have to play that much on the keyboard. And that’s why this song has the sex appeal it does.

And those types of records you can’t make unless you had a hit prior to that, you get what I mean? You do it out of confidence. “I can do anything now.” So then you try anything. And that’s what this is.

And that’s when faith comes into it. [Listening to the end of “Revelation”] What that’s about is Moses. Remember they said he put his hand into his cloak and pulled it out and it was white? [Exodus 4:6] What color was it before he put it in? So now we can start talking about that stuff. We couldn’t do that until you had a [Black] president. Couldn’t do that until hip-hop.

Hip-hop is its own force now. It took a minute. And that’s why Jay has to succeed. Our entities have to succeed. Baby and Lil Wayne ain’t supposed to be fighting. That’s supposed to be where cooler minds sit down and say, “Check this out fellas: for all of us, stop. ’Cause we said so. Everybody’s gonna calm down.” Rap ain’t gonna be a ghost town. Nobody’s gonna shoot nobody.

I’m saying: now we can start talking about this stuff. And without faith… I was telling a friend of mine who was here was that I wouldn’t have met Josh if it wasn’t for faith. We wouldn’t have had nothing in common. He’d have thought I was crazy, and vice versa.

Religion, when used properly, actually is like a health regimen. And they’re finding now that people who have faith live longer. I mean, it says so in the book. That’s what it’s supposed to be. You ain’t supposed to die. If there’s God, then that’s what God would be.

EBONY: What do you say to people who are more spiritual than religious?

Prince: That’s okay. Because eventually they’re gonna get more responsibility. And that’s where religion will come into it. Because you have to have some sort of glue that’s gonna keep people honorable. Even if you’re thieves. And that’s what religion is. It’s order. Just think about it like that. The word’s been muddied. We forget what it was in the beginning. Did you see Tut?

EBONY: No.

Prince: It was interesting. ’Cause that’s the way it was in the beginning. And it’s all explained out there. Remember: all of that was African. If you just look at it for its African properties, then everything’s straight. It’s all in there. Every story is based upon that story, the story of Tut and his father. They just keep retelling it in different ways. And the Bible is just the same story, that story, told different ways in several different parts in the Bible. Once you know that, then you don’t get overwhelmed by what’s in the Bible. That’s if it’s taught properly. You don’t get overwhelmed by it, and there’s nothing to fight about.

Like, this supposed to be like wings. Take you up higher. Now do your work from a higher place, get more done, cover more ground, and whoop your competitors. Comparisons with this, that and the other, we never thought of ourselves as having competition with anybody.

uh oh I just read a truth according to Prince lol

the Moses part. When Moses pulled his hand out of his cloak it was leperous white.

Come on Prince... who got to his mind...

And Hip Hop was a force, that became dark and spread some negative stuff everywhere. Hip Hop is nothing now... I know he had to give Jay Z a rub by saying that but where was Prince in the last 10yrs? Hip Hop is nothing.

It's a lovely song that reveals such deep maturity; difficult to compare with youthful ballads of thirty years ago. I've only been able to bear listening to it once since Prince died.

This song is so chill. I love it. Probably my favorite "new" Prince song. The last Prince CD I got was Planet Earth...I got Hit and Run Phase 2 after he passed....goodness it is so bomb! I love Groovy Potential and Xtralovable as well. He still had the sex, sensuality and pop sound I have always loved from him. I actually really like his older, more mature sexiness. Can't wait to discover his other work during my Prince fan hiatus since PE.

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nursev said:

This song is just beautiful I mean it has everything one wants in a Prince song and the extended version is heaven damn eargasm listening to it

it's insanely good - i like the interplay between the offbeat snare and the offbeat guitar solo.

Revelation [x2]

It's coming back to me now
You and I were meant to be together (hands down)

Revelation [x2]

It seems like you've always been here,
Now that you are, stay with me forever my dear

Revelation [x2]

If ever (if ever), there was ever
such a thing as time, oh baby
It's useless, so useless to me now
For in your arms is everything, in your arms, everything
An army of haters, one by one
will do what they will to everyone
but the task at hand until I see the sun
is to keep doing you until you cum, to revelation (revelation...)

(Can I play with it now?)

It's all coming back to me now, like it was deep in the ocean
I'll beat me sword into a plow, and share a heavenly potion
with my future queen...
Half east, half west, the truth's somewhere; lest inbetween

Through English glamour, casting a spell
Though Hebrew, Greek and Roman hell
higher 'til we understand, the colour of the Pharoah's hand
(the colour of the Pharoah's hand...)

Love, LOVE, love Revelation

It seems like a special gift since his transition.

Krystalkisses said:

This song is so chill. I love it. Probably my favorite "new" Prince song. The last Prince CD I got was Planet Earth...I got Hit and Run Phase 2 after he passed....goodness it is so bomb! I love Groovy Potential and Xtralovable as well. He still had the sex, sensuality and pop sound I have always loved from him. I actually really like his older, more mature sexiness. Can't wait to discover his other work during my Prince fan hiatus since PE.

[Edited 7/19/16 14:08pm]

I had the same hiatus as you (After Planet Earth). Since his death, I have gotten AOA, HNR 1 and 2, and Lotusflow3r et al. and don't regret any of the purchases. Given how much you love Relevation, I think that you alsowould love AOA. It seems that most people here do and those who don't tend not to like ballads or more laid back music such as Revelation.

gandorb said:

Krystalkisses said:

This song is so chill. I love it. Probably my favorite "new" Prince song. The last Prince CD I got was Planet Earth...I got Hit and Run Phase 2 after he passed....goodness it is so bomb! I love Groovy Potential and Xtralovable as well. He still had the sex, sensuality and pop sound I have always loved from him. I actually really like his older, more mature sexiness. Can't wait to discover his other work during my Prince fan hiatus since PE.

[Edited 7/19/16 14:08pm]

I had the same hiatus as you (After Planet Earth). Since his death, I have gotten AOA, HNR 1 and 2, and Lotusflow3r et al. and don't regret any of the purchases. Given how much you love Relevation, I think that you alsowould love AOA. It seems that most people here do and those who don't tend not to like ballads or more laid back music such as Revelation.

Thanks for the suggestions...last weekend my son and I went to Electric Fetus in Mpls and I picked up "LotusFlower" because I heard Valentina online and really liked it...I'll probably get AOA next as I saw that at the store.

motherfunka said:

To me this song is top notch Prince. I love it. I was at the party when they did the extended version. I found this article with Prince discussing the song from Ebony magazine:

Prince: When I was doing that, there’d be no way I could hear this. Now I think this is the best stuff. This is “Revelation.” That’s Marcus Anderson on soprano.

EBONY: That moody keyboard effect works.

Prince: When I did the track, it was about an hour and a half of just messing around with the groove. He just kept messing around with programming. When he got that one, it sounded like “U Got the Look.” I said: “That. Stop.” Then he didn’t have to play that much on the keyboard. And that’s why this song has the sex appeal it does.

And those types of records you can’t make unless you had a hit prior to that, you get what I mean? You do it out of confidence. “I can do anything now.” So then you try anything. And that’s what this is.

And that’s when faith comes into it. [Listening to the end of “Revelation”] What that’s about is Moses. Remember they said he put his hand into his cloak and pulled it out and it was white? [Exodus 4:6] What color was it before he put it in? So now we can start talking about that stuff. We couldn’t do that until you had a [Black] president. Couldn’t do that until hip-hop.

Hip-hop is its own force now. It took a minute. And that’s why Jay has to succeed. Our entities have to succeed. Baby and Lil Wayne ain’t supposed to be fighting. That’s supposed to be where cooler minds sit down and say, “Check this out fellas: for all of us, stop. ’Cause we said so. Everybody’s gonna calm down.” Rap ain’t gonna be a ghost town. Nobody’s gonna shoot nobody.

I’m saying: now we can start talking about this stuff. And without faith… I was telling a friend of mine who was here was that I wouldn’t have met Josh if it wasn’t for faith. We wouldn’t have had nothing in common. He’d have thought I was crazy, and vice versa.

Religion, when used properly, actually is like a health regimen. And they’re finding now that people who have faith live longer. I mean, it says so in the book. That’s what it’s supposed to be. You ain’t supposed to die. If there’s God, then that’s what God would be.

EBONY: What do you say to people who are more spiritual than religious?

Prince: That’s okay. Because eventually they’re gonna get more responsibility. And that’s where religion will come into it. Because you have to have some sort of glue that’s gonna keep people honorable. Even if you’re thieves. And that’s what religion is. It’s order. Just think about it like that. The word’s been muddied. We forget what it was in the beginning. Did you see Tut?

EBONY: No.

Prince: It was interesting. ’Cause that’s the way it was in the beginning. And it’s all explained out there. Remember: all of that was African. If you just look at it for its African properties, then everything’s straight. It’s all in there. Every story is based upon that story, the story of Tut and his father. They just keep retelling it in different ways. And the Bible is just the same story, that story, told different ways in several different parts in the Bible. Once you know that, then you don’t get overwhelmed by what’s in the Bible. That’s if it’s taught properly. You don’t get overwhelmed by it, and there’s nothing to fight about.

Like, this supposed to be like wings. Take you up higher. Now do your work from a higher place, get more done, cover more ground, and whoop your competitors. Comparisons with this, that and the other, we never thought of ourselves as having competition with anybody.

Thank you mothafunka!

That's some deep talk right there by Prince. I didn't know the brother was that deep!

P is making a brother proud. P knows about the Afrikan origins of the Bible. I love it!!!!!!!!!!

I miss P even more, now!

I never fully heard the lyrics before. I was still caught in the music.

The lyrics read like something from the Rainbow Children.

his Egyptology facination, a touch of JW afterlife, a lil Christian Gnosticism

I like this line: Through English glamour, casting a spell

the Ebony explanation of the music is wonderful. the interpetation of the song not so much.

Sounds like he got a hold of some Black Hebrewism/Israelites

JayZ Baby(?) Lil Wayne... seriously

I can't get enough of this song.

motherfunka said:

To me this song is top notch Prince. I love it. I was at the party when they did the extended version. I found this article with Prince discussing the song from Ebony magazine:

Prince: When I was doing that, there’d be no way I could hear this. Now I think this is the best stuff. This is “Revelation.” That’s Marcus Anderson on soprano.

EBONY: That moody keyboard effect works.

Prince: When I did the track, it was about an hour and a half of just messing around with the groove. He just kept messing around with programming. When he got that one, it sounded like “U Got the Look.” I said: “That. Stop.” Then he didn’t have to play that much on the keyboard. And that’s why this song has the sex appeal it does.

And those types of records you can’t make unless you had a hit prior to that, you get what I mean? You do it out of confidence. “I can do anything now.” So then you try anything. And that’s what this is.

And that’s when faith comes into it. [Listening to the end of “Revelation”] What that’s about is Moses. Remember they said he put his hand into his cloak and pulled it out and it was white? [Exodus 4:6] What color was it before he put it in? So now we can start talking about that stuff. We couldn’t do that until you had a [Black] president. Couldn’t do that until hip-hop.

Hip-hop is its own force now. It took a minute. And that’s why Jay has to succeed. Our entities have to succeed. Baby and Lil Wayne ain’t supposed to be fighting. That’s supposed to be where cooler minds sit down and say, “Check this out fellas: for all of us, stop. ’Cause we said so. Everybody’s gonna calm down.” Rap ain’t gonna be a ghost town. Nobody’s gonna shoot nobody.

I’m saying: now we can start talking about this stuff. And without faith… I was telling a friend of mine who was here was that I wouldn’t have met Josh if it wasn’t for faith. We wouldn’t have had nothing in common. He’d have thought I was crazy, and vice versa.

Religion, when used properly, actually is like a health regimen. And they’re finding now that people who have faith live longer. I mean, it says so in the book. That’s what it’s supposed to be. You ain’t supposed to die. If there’s God, then that’s what God would be.

EBONY: What do you say to people who are more spiritual than religious?

Prince: That’s okay. Because eventually they’re gonna get more responsibility. And that’s where religion will come into it. Because you have to have some sort of glue that’s gonna keep people honorable. Even if you’re thieves. And that’s what religion is. It’s order. Just think about it like that. The word’s been muddied. We forget what it was in the beginning. Did you see Tut?

EBONY: No.

Prince: It was interesting. ’Cause that’s the way it was in the beginning. And it’s all explained out there. Remember: all of that was African. If you just look at it for its African properties, then everything’s straight. It’s all in there. Every story is based upon that story, the story of Tut and his father. They just keep retelling it in different ways. And the Bible is just the same story, that story, told different ways in several different parts in the Bible. Once you know that, then you don’t get overwhelmed by what’s in the Bible. That’s if it’s taught properly. You don’t get overwhelmed by it, and there’s nothing to fight about.

Like, this supposed to be like wings. Take you up higher. Now do your work from a higher place, get more done, cover more ground, and whoop your competitors. Comparisons with this, that and the other, we never thought of ourselves as having competition with anybody.

After reading this I can hear U Got The Look now!