| Prince – Cream Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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One of the first song's written for the Diamond's and Pearls album, this song is supposedly a love letter Prince wrote to himself. In a marketplace that was beginning to cast him off as irrelevant, Prince took a look in the mirror and wrote the words to this song. I think its one of THEE most inspirational tunes he's ever written. Diamonds and Pearls went on to be an artistic AND commerical success!! You go, boy!! |
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| Tracy Chapman – Telling Stories Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I'm surprised no one has touched this one. TS is obviously directed to a fiction writer. The constant refrain: "there is fiction in the space between" shows that Tracy and this "person" have two different recollections of their relationship (that is obviously now over). Tracy's recollection (as far as she's concerned) is true, and the writer's is fictional. Tracy tells her ex that just because she writes things down, doesn't mean that she's 'not just telling stories.' Tracy goes on to show us how mellowdramatic her ex is as she paint tracy as "the scary monster" who 'eats the city as [she] leaves the scene'. But in truth when her ex wakes up from the nightmare there is no one but her standing. But apparently everyone expects mellowdrama from her author-ex and Tracy accepts that its not about her, its about how Alice Walker OOPS!, i mean... this "author" needs to keep being this dazzling author of the sad and sordid story in the public's eye. Tracy, you are the one that deserves the award for crafting YOUR rememberance of the relationship in this way!! I applaud your honesty!! And while it may not have generated the sales or mass appeal of other albums, "Telling Stories" is the Hejira of my generation!! |
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