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Riff: Prince – “Aintturninaround”

Sep 30, 2014

Get to the promised land/You got to go back to understand/Everything comes from sound/All vibrating under the crown/And we ain’t, no we ain’t/Turnin’ around

from Aintturninaround lyrics by Prince

Moving at breakneck speed means not slowing down for anyone, which also means that turning around is completely out of the picture. There’s knowledge being dropped here, a history lesson that stretches beyond the books. For the trip they offer up a hefty dose of guitar that’s fuzzier than a Georgia peach.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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