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Riff: Prince – “Clouds”

Aug 29, 2014

If you screamed out loud (loud)/The top of your voice wouldn’t be higher than the crowd, no/Tattoo-less and proud, yeah/We’re getting high off something, that doesn’t require clouds, no/We don’t need no clouds, no

from Clouds lyrics by Prince

A prince to many, but a king to others. And like most good rulers do he postpones his rituals – a dip in the purifying waters of Lake Minnetonka – to question the digital age threatening his kingdom. It’s lathered in buttery funk, but it’s the message of staying in the here and now that resonates most.

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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