Since Thursday my email, text, and Facebook page have been "blowing up", as the kids say, with messages.
Messages and posts about Prince.
I'm humbled and flattered that so many people thought of me when he passed.
And I thank you all.
Or as Prince would say "Eye thank u all"
I've kept relatively quiet here on the internet while I still process one of the most influential artist in my life no longer being on this Earth. I still really can't express what is going through my head, heart , and soul. It's nearly the same feeling I had in 1990 when Jim Henson died. How can someone you never knew mean so much to a person?
I did make a small post on Facebook that evening though - that I'll copy here:
Spent today avoiding the internet. Before the news hit I was on the roof of a parking garage blasting "Sign 'O' The Times" from my car and enjoying a coffee and some sun before work. A few hours later I see the news. And my phone blows up. So as I collect my thoughts on this day, and think about what I feel and want to say I will leave this here for now, some Prince lyrics that got me through my brother's death in 1993: "You better run to the light. Leave your past behind. All things will be fine. Still would stand all time".
With his lyrics in mind I am going to spend the next seven days on this blog posting a different set of lyrics from Prince.
Each song has had some significance on my life. Got me through something, opened my eyes to something, or brought me and others together to dance. Each of these seven songs have changed my life.
How beautiful do the words have 2 be
Before they conquer every heart?
How will U know if I'm even in the right key
If U make me stop before I start?
If I came back as a dolphin
Would U listen 2 me then?
Would U let me be your friend?
Would U let me in?
U can cut off all my fins
But 2 your ways I will not bend
I'll die before I let U tell me how 2 swim
And I'll come back again as a dolphin
Why does my brother have 2 go hungry
When U told him there was food 4 all?
This is the man that stands next 2 the man
That stands 2 catch U when U fall
If I came back as a dolphin
Would U listen 2 me then?
Would U let me be your friend?
Would U let me in?
U can cut off all my fins
But 2 your ways I will not bend
I'll die before I let U tell me how 2 swim
And I'll come back again as a dolphin
If I'm under water, will U find me?
Will U shine a light and try 2 guide me?
It's happened before, I've knocked on your door
But U wouldn't let me in
How beautiful do the words have 2 be
Before they conquer every heart?
If I came back as a dolphin
Would U listen 2 me then?
Would U let me be your friend?
Would U let me in?
U can cut off all my fins
But 2 your ways I will not bend
I'll die before I let U tell me how 2 swim
Come back in the end as a dolphin
As a dolphin
Dolphin - from "The Gold Experience" 1995
©1994 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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