Please somebody explain what the heck this is about? Is it his interpretation of something in the New Translation?

If it is, chapter and verse please, i need to read this sci-fi shit!

U have got to me joking me!

who cares?!?!?

the music is too good to spoil it with the insane lyrics

Love, like a rose in bloom
All of the Rainbow Children will feel it soon
2 the east, word traveled about this energy
Until it reached the Banished Ones
Who just wanted this love 2 cease

They now fallen in2
The Resistor's dream
And they built a Digital Garden
Or so it seemed

In this brilliant darkness
So-called angels of light
"Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies"

And all the Rainbow Children
Will stand and fight
4 everlasting, everlasting life
4 the one who sits on the right
4 Him we're willing to do the work

The Banished Ones approaching the palace shouted obscenities. They tried 2
confuse the Rainbow Children and dethron their king. Using the lies promoted
by the whosepapers, hellavisions, and scagazines- The Banished Ones
constructed a Digital Garden around the palace that extended throughout the
world. Furthermore they demanded compensation 4 their time spent in the
palace b4 the exile. This was noise! "So be it," said the Wise One, and
gladly obliged with an INVISIBLE DEED. The Banished Ones accepted and
returned to their place of birth in MendaCity. As 4 the Rainbow Children,
they began deconstructing the Digital Garden. Door to door they went in
search of those willing to do The Work

From: http://www.princelyrics.c...italgarden

I don't really want to go into what I think TRC is about since one just get's labelled as a fruit-loop or conspiracy theoriest, but Digital Garden, The Work pt.1 and also The War are right on the button - Prince has been doing some reading these past few years, I think it's the same stuff I've been reading.

I don't know what half of his shit means anymore. His preaching in ONA left me like..

marcdeondotcom said:

Just "leave that blood alone" and you'll be okay.

Worst. Party chant. Ever.

Romance1600 said:

Damn what others think, first of all. Speak your peace.

Replace certain players in this little story with possible real life entities and you get an, um "interesting" interpretation:

Digital Garden - rumors spread on the net
The Wise one/king - Prince
Rainbow Children - JWs, NPG (the jury's still out on this one)
MendaCity - artist's major labels
Banished Ones - former Paisley Park artists
INVISIBLE DEED - compensation for work performed while artists on NPG's label, whether monetary or full ownership of their work
Palace - Paisley Park

What's there to get? The whole album just narrates one
long made up story that is parts biblical, part myth &
3 quarters Prince weirdness.

And still it's an incredible trip of an album, awsome.

The Digital Garden seems to be the manifestation of the
root of all evil, modern technology and materialism, in
it's own way a diversion from the holy and a direct way
that leads away from God and toward a path of selfish,
egotistical wrongdoing [according to TRC's narrator].

The deconstruction of the Digital Garden and all of it's
illusions and smokescreens will allow mankind to realise
that there is more to life than instant satisfaction and
indeed a whole nother spiritual side to life that has
been swept under the carpet.

Something like that.

I don't have time now, but I'll bookmark the thread and come back to it.

Prince seems to have been on this track since Gold, but since The War he's been putting it into the lyrics.

He's a clever guy obviously, and very poet, which can makes TRC sound, lyrically, more religious than it need be.
Whether that's because Prince truly believes in the religious aspect of it, or he is just using that language I dunno.

IstenSzek said:

Intersting...

Wow my dope inspired thread is finally taking off! This morning i was so regretting posting this last night.

Glad to see some folks making sense of it anyway!