Sign O' The Times

Oooh My Goodness!!!! Man, I have been craving the a copy of the video Sign O' The Times by Prince from the 80's. The album, yes it was on vinyl originally when it came out. I was in high school. A double album with every song a hit in my book. Prince was King...I had been an admirer since I was 14 when Purple Rain (Gotham City...Ha!) came out. I know every word....every sound and moan he and everyone else makes in this video (Sign O' The Times). I remember when I was sitting of the backseat of my mom's car...we were driving in Richmond...and heard this song on the radio. It was Sign O' The Time. The part that got me was "It's silly, no? when a rocket ship explodes and everybody still wanna fly" I had watched the replay of the space shuttle exploding in the sky...I walked in to science glass and it played over and over again. It was my first global tragedy that I had lived through. My mom and Dad had the civil rights era that was broadcast on television. They had had their moments of universal, collective pain. This was the first of mine. The events that impacted my psyche.

Anyway, My man main Prince wrote the soundtrack to the life I have lived. He has been with me, his songs through every phase of my life. I remember my feelings, I feel them again with each album, song, CD. And when I am confused or disjointed I play Prince to help me reintegrate my selves. It was with Prince that I became a dreamer...A believer that things can always be better. I too merged God, the Creater with base, the not so godly parts of my self.

Stopped thinking in dichotomies. It was no longer either/or...it was Both/And. He has always made me wanna be better. Maybe we both have a Royalty Complex. His name Prince and mine Patrice meaning one of nobility plus I am a Leo ruled by the Sun, Aton, Ra the Sun God.

I don't thing that there is a person on the Earth who has influenced me more than Prince Rogers Nelson.

My favorite song from this album is "If I Was Your GirlFriend".. Enjoy!!
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Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend Lyrics

If I was your girlfriend
would you remember
To tell me all of the things you forgot when I was your man?
If I was your best friend
would you let me toke care of you?
Do all the things that only a best friend can?
If I was your girlfriend
if I was your girlfriend.

If I was your girlfriend
would you let me dress you?
I mean
help you pick out your clothes before we got out?
Not that you're helpless
but sometime

Sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about.

If I was your one and only friend
would you run to me
If somebody hurt yov
even if that somebody was me?
Sometime I trip on how happy we could be. Please!
If I was your girlfriend
if I was your girlfriend.

Would you let me wash your hair?
Could I make you breakfast sometime?
Or could we iust hang out? Go to the movies and cry together?
'Cause to me
baby
that would be so fine.

If I was your girlfriend
baby
can I dress you? . . .

Sugar
do you know what I'm saying to you this evening?
Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered

Bvt I want to be all of the things you are to me

Surely
surely you can see.

Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room
Just because you wanna undress?
You don't have to make children to make love.
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