Prince’s New Protest Song “Baltimore” Now Streaming Online

in Current Affairs, Music | May 9th, 2015 7 Comments

As the protests in Bal­ti­more unfold­ed, Prince sat at his key­board at Pais­ley Park’s sound­stage in Min­neso­ta and start­ed pen­ning a peace­ful protest song, which just hit the web this morn­ing. Click play and pon­der the lyrics below. Then get the back­sto­ry on the writ­ing of “Bal­ti­more” at MyFox­TwinCi­ties.

BALTIMORE
lyrics by Prince
NPG RECORDS, copy­right 2015

NOBODY GOT IN NOBODY’S WAY
SO EYE GUESS U COULD SAY
IT WAS A GOOD DAY
AT LEAST A LITTLE BETTER THAN THE DAY IN BALTIMORE

DOES ANYBODY HEAR US PRAY?
4 MICHAEL BROWN OR FREDDIE GRAY PEACE IS MORE THAN THE ABSENCE OF WAR
ABSENCE OF WAR

R WE GONNA C ANOTHER BLOODY DAY?
WE’RE TIRED OF CRYIN’ & PEOPLE DYIN’
LET’S TAKE ALL THE GUNS AWAY

ABSENCE OF WAR- U AND ME
MAYBE WE CAN FINALLY SAY
ENUFF IS ENUFF IT’S TIME 4 LOVE

IT’S TIME 2 HEAR,
IT’S TIME 2 HEAR

THE GUITAR PLAY! (gui­tar solo)

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  • Tyriq says:
    May 9, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    Great old school vibe and chill relaxed vibe for a poignant mes­sage. Well done. Prince is still the MAN!

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  • Paul Tatara says:
    May 9, 2015 at 8:40 pm

    I’m proud to say I saw Prince from the fourth row in Atlanta on the “Pur­ple Rain” tour. He played the great­est gui­tar solo I’ve ever heard live.

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  • Sky says:
    May 10, 2015 at 9:12 am

    And yet, he has a 14 per­son body­guard con­tin­gent hired from Acad­e­mia (For­mer­ly, Black­wa­ter), all who car­ry auto­mat­ic rifles, hand­guns and an assort­ment of oth­er weapons.

    Is he hav­ing his body­gau­rds give up their weapons, or are we the ones who are sup­posed to go first?

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  • Declan says:
    May 10, 2015 at 9:43 am

    Maybe just me, but that riff sounds very like the one from Thin Lizzy’s “Sarah”.

    Reply
  • OD says:
    May 11, 2015 at 4:39 am

    1) “Eye” is obv “i” in the lyrics
    2) Lyrics miss­ing, the most impor­tant too. In the end the song says
    “If there ain’t no jus­tice,
    there can be no peace.”
    And that’s the best part.

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  • Hanoch says:
    May 11, 2015 at 7:06 am

    In 2013, accord­ing to FBI sta­tis­tics, over 6000 black Amer­i­cans were mur­dered, most­ly by oth­er black civil­ians. Where are the “protests” for them?

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  • Sharon says:
    May 12, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    If they would only lis­ten !!!!

    Reply

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