Today’s bit from “Souvenir”…
“And then there’s our Prince,
Who missed with 1999…”
I saw the news footage of Prince performing at Superbowl time when I wrote Souvenir, and that’s how he got in there. He was being Devilish. And one of the charms of the web is I can now read lyrics to songs I’ve always had trouble understanding. I hear okay, but rock and roll lyrics, and Spanish lessons have always escaped me!
Here’s some of the lyric…
“I was dreamin' when I wrote this
“And then there’s our Prince,
Who missed with 1999…”
I saw the news footage of Prince performing at Superbowl time when I wrote Souvenir, and that’s how he got in there. He was being Devilish. And one of the charms of the web is I can now read lyrics to songs I’ve always had trouble understanding. I hear okay, but rock and roll lyrics, and Spanish lessons have always escaped me!
Here’s some of the lyric…
“I was dreamin' when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray
But when I woke up this mornin'
Coulda sworn it was judgment day
The sky was all purple
There were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' 2 run from the destruction
U know I didn't even care
'Cuz they say two thousand zero zero party over
Oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999”
I think I might make the same caveat regarding “Sourvenir”: forgive me if I go astray.
But Prince’s words are really good. While I’m writing, CNN is doing a documentary on Iraq, Month of Mayhem, with a British or Austrailian newsman narrating.
And that song was written in 1983, and all those years leading up to the turn of the century it was a kindof party anthem.
Party singing for me is singing, Take me out to the ball game… during the seventh inning stretch! But I can see/hear Joan Jett singing, I love rock and roll…
Songfacts on the web has the best collection of rock and roll lore I’ve found.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
May 12, 2007
I think I might make the same caveat regarding “Sourvenir”: forgive me if I go astray.
But Prince’s words are really good. While I’m writing, CNN is doing a documentary on Iraq, Month of Mayhem, with a British or Austrailian newsman narrating.
And that song was written in 1983, and all those years leading up to the turn of the century it was a kindof party anthem.
Party singing for me is singing, Take me out to the ball game… during the seventh inning stretch! But I can see/hear Joan Jett singing, I love rock and roll…
Songfacts on the web has the best collection of rock and roll lore I’ve found.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
May 12, 2007
