Does anyone know the words to this song?


Please send all your Moonbeam Levels to who? Them Ben Who?

I can't make out too much of this song. Just a lil' bit.

Yesterday I tried 2 write a novel but I didn't know where 2 begin
So I laid down in the grass tryin' 2 feel the world turn
Boy loses girl in a rain storm, nuclear World War III
All that's left is pain and sorrow, as far as he's concerned

CHORUS:
He says please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
I'm lookin' 4 a better place 2 die

Maybe he's lookin' 4 a different world
Maybe he's lookin' 4 a brand new high
Maybe he would like a nice condo overlookin' the rings of Saturn
Maybe he wants affection instead of a plastic life
Maybe he doesn't know what he wants at all

CHORUS

A newborn child knows nothing of destruction
Nothing of love and hate
What happens in between is a mystery
Because we don't give a damn about his fate

He said he'll never keep diaries 2 learn from his mistakes
Instead he'll just repeat all the good things that he's done
Fight 4 perfect love until it's perfect love he makes
When he's happy then his battle will be won (It's never 2 late)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your.. send 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Send your levels 2 me)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me
(Sending me your.. send 2 me)
I'm lookin' 4 a better place 2 die (Better place 2 die)

Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me (Oh yeah!)
Please send all your moonbeam levels 2 me {x2}
He don't, he don't, he don't really wanna die
He don't wanna, he don't wanna, he don't wanna die {x2}
He don't really wanna die

Seems to me this song is pure fantasy, set up by the fact that the narrator is trying to write a novel, set in the future about a guy escaping World War III and looking for a better place to die than where he is, ie, in a future war....maybe overlooking the rings of Saturn would be better, for example.

The "Moonbeam Levels" in question could be the interstellar way of communicating in the future, between he, the narrator, and his girl.

I hope that helps, but it's just my interpretation!

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[This message was edited Fri May 21 22:16:32 2004 by mrdespues]

Megathanks for the lyrics. The interpretation is a bonus. Sounds good to me.

So I take it he has no plans to ever release this song.
[This message was edited Fri May 21 22:26:49 2004 by Love2tha9s]

Love2tha9s said:

I doubt it, though I think at one time it may have been selected by fans as a track to be included on the proposed Crystal Ball 2 album.

It was on one of the tracklists for the '88 Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic. (do a search here, it's been posted many times).

It's also another in Prince's line of apocalyptic songs - i.e. 1999, Purple Rain, Crystal Ball, The War, Digital Garden, Play In The Sunshine.

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[This message was edited Sat May 22 6:35:04 2004 by Love2tha9s]