New releases from the NPGMusic
Club in 2003
Xpectation
Reflections
The Moors In Spain
News
I Like It There
Thieves In The Temple
What Do U Want Me 2 Do
U Want Me
Xpectation
**Picture above is not the official artwork for the album **
The collection of instrumentals called "Xpectation" is identical to the previously
announced album "Xenophobia",
except for the original title track "Xenophobia",which
was omitted as it was released in a live version on
"One Nite Alone Live EP" (5 track promo CD) and finally on the box set "One
Nite Alone... Live!" in 2002.
The material was recorded in the first quarter of 2002.
The NPG Music Club made all 9 songs available online - as '01 Jan 2003 Web
only MP3 release' -
xclusively to all members of the club!
Tracklist
01. "Xenophobia" [unreleased!]
02. "Xhalation" [2:03]
03. "Xcogitate" [3:33]
04. "Xemplify" [5:53]
05. "Xpectation" [4:01]
06. "Xotica" [3:05]
07. "Xogenous" [4:11]
08. "Xpand" [6:10]
09. "Xosphere" [3:34]
10. "Xpedition" [8:23
Reflections
New song available since April 18th 2003 on the relaunch of the NPGMC
website
2 servants together
Like time, indefinite
Trying to catch the glass
Before it falls
Without a frown
Can you turn up the stereo?
I wanna play you this old song
It's about love
Can I do that?
Did we remember to water the plants today?
I forgot to look up at the moon bcuz
I was too busy, said I was too busy
I was too busy
Looking at you babe
Still it's nice to know
That, uh when bodies wear out
We can get another
What does that one thing have to do with the other one?
I don't know
I was just thinking about my mother
You know what
Turn the stereo back down
Ain't nothing worse than an old worn-out love song
Tell me do you like my hair this way
Remember all the way back in the day
When we would compare who's afro was the roundest
Mirrored tiles above the bed
Fishing nets and posters all over the wall
Oh yes, sometimes
Sometimes i just wanna go sit out on the stoop
And ehm...play my guitar
Just watch all...all the cars roll by...
The Moors In Spain
(incomplete lyrics to a song posted by Prince in the Vs room of the NPGMC
website 20th May 2003,
as of 16th June 2003 the song itself has not been posted though )
If this great African culture were alive 2day
We’d b 400 years more advanced
From Arabia they came 2 blossom in Spain
And 2 the beat of the drum they danced
Masters of the Arts and all industry
While France, England and all Germany
Wallowed in the mire of their own bigotry
The Moors were the ones who were truly free
Civilization came 2 Europe thru the Greek
Who were simply Africans who came from the Nile
The Greeks gave it 2 Rome who lost their way home
And it stayed that way 4 quite a while
Under their own misconception of Christianity
The barbaric (?) Europeans suffered greatly
While the Catholic Church was staking it’s claim
The Moors were making great gains
Introducing strawberries, lemons and sugarcane
Algebra, chemistry from the Moors this all came
Their contributions 2 knowledge, 2 numerous 2 name
While in Europe there were no public libraries, the Moors in Spain
Had 70, 600 thousand manuscripts and 17 universities
Not hardly a prisoner in the mind of society
In the Spain the Moors were once truly free
The one who is most gifted cannot lead the way in a world that never respected
authority…
The sword of the Moor would have never left its sheath if the longhaired
barbarian who
opposed them would have only seen
That 2 win a war against the so-called “black infidels”
Brings about a peace that cannot last
But I guess all’s well that ends well… well it ain’t over
"News" :new instrumental album ,available from June 19th
2003
Tracklist
01. North (14:00)
02. East (14:00)
03. West (14:00)
04. South (14:00)
Further information:
- Artist: Prince
- feat. Eric Leeds on Sax!
- produced by Prince
- Label: NPG Records
- Year: 2003
- Format: CD
I Like It There (video available on Cyberclips
section)
Anyone can tell I love ya
Anyone can tell I care
Twice an hour I'm thinkin' of ya
Around your waist I wanna be there
On your heavenly body I swear
I like it there
Anyone can see what's come over me
Don't u know it's 'cause of u
I'm in a daze but that's the way it's gotta be
Let me count the ways I'm diggin' u
Diggin' u, baby
I'm diggin' u, baby
I hope u're diggin' me too
Baby,
I like it there
I like it there
I like it there
On your heavenly body I swear
I like it there
Can I count the ways that I'm diggin' u
I hope u're diggin' me too
Yeah,
I like it
I like it
I like it
That's right
On your heavenly body I swear
I like it there
Every damn day I please u
What can I say Shakespeare hasn't said before?
Like an embryo baby
Don't abort this dire need 4 u
All my emotional ejaculate on the floor (on the floor)
And what's more, what's more
Your heavenly body, baby
I swear (I swear), I swear
I like it there
yeah
(I like it there) Don't think I don't when I do, girl
(I like it there) U know how much I love ya
(I like it there) More than I love my hair
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah
I like it there
I like it there (I like it there)
I like it there
On your heavenly body I swear (baby, baby, I swear)
I like it there
Thieves In The Temple
(video available on Cyberclips section)
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
They don't care where they kick
Just as long as they hurt u
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Love if u're there come save me
>From all this cold despair
I can hang when u're around
But I'll surely die
If u're not there
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
I feel like I'm looking for my soul (Soul)
Like a poor man looking for gold (Gold)
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Voices from the sky say rely on your best friend to pull u through
But even if I wanted 2 I couldn't really truely 'cause my only friend is
u
Come on
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
(Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
'Cause me and u could have been a work of art
Thieves in the temple
Baby don't u know I'm holding on
The best that I can
Love please help me be
The better man
Better than the thieves in the temple
In the temple tonight
Oh, thieves in the temple (Tonight) tonight
Hurt me
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple tonight
Thieves in the temple
U said u loved me! (Thieves in the temple)
U said I was your friend! (Thieves in the temple)
U were supposed to take care of me! (Love come quick) {Thieves in the
temple}
U lie! Love come (Lie!) in a hurry (Lie!)
Thieves in the temple tonight
I'm holdin' on (I'm holdin' on) the best that I can
Love please, (let me be) let me be the better man
Better than the ones that wanna count me out
Better than the ones that don't know what my love's about
I'm talkin' 'bout the kinda love that can move a mountain
The kinda love that could part the sea
The kinda love that'll last 4 ever
(no matter what u say we should be together)
U should be with me (thieves in the temple)
Yeah, u should be with me
I said I wanna know (talk to me)
one thing (talk to me)
said I wanna know (talk to me)
I wanna know one thing, baby (talk to me)
How come you said that I was your baby
When u and your love was gonna leave
U led me on, led me on thinkin' U was Moses
Herding sheep blindly through a fantasy
U done me wrong (thieves in the temple)
And everybody knows it
Now the sound of my voice is pumpin' in your chest
More or less, I am here to tell u that
I am the best
Better than the rest
Better than the thieves in the temple tonight
tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, hurt me
(Put it in)
Thieves in the temple
Thieves in the temple
Thieves in the temple
Thieves in the temple tonight
Put your foot on the rock
Let me show you how to clock
Put your foot on the rock
Let me show you how to clock
Thieves in the temple
(What the....?)
Who got the party, who got the party, who?
Who got the party, who got the party, who?
Who got the party, who got the party, who?
Who got the party, who got the party, who?
(hurt me)
Thieves in the temple
What Do U Want Me 2 Do
New song available since November 14th 2003
I see you pick me out from the crowd
Could it be the way I play guitar?
Master of the soul , not 2 loud
1 day maybe I will be a star
I see u pick me out like u want something
Shame on u babe - can’t u see this ring?
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
I got a woman you got ur man
So we got 2 do what’s right
U’d get beheaded in other lands
If I were in ur arms 2nite
U try 2 get me under
That icy plunder - boy oh boy what a scam - ooh
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
U picked me out of the crowd and
Ooh - just so bold and so proud
And just like u want everybody 2 just say "wow"
Didn’t her momma teach her better? Ow
Dressed like that somebody gon’ get her!
I see u pick me from the crowd
Could it be the way I play guitar?
Master of the soul - not 2 loud
I don’t ever really wanna be where you are, where you are
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
What do U want Me 2 Do Girl?
What do U want Me 2 Do Babe?
U Want Me
(performed on the Live at the Aladdin DVD)
By the way U look at me
Eye can tell U fancy me
As sure as there's salt in the sea
U want me
By the way you came 4 me
And whispered things so lovingly
Blah, blah, blah - we were meant 2 be
U just want me
Sublime the Rhyme that comes from thee
How flowers help up next 2 me...
Proves that all in all is no theory
U want me
Spoken word - unnecessary
U and eye were born 2 marry
Immaculate and duty-free
U want me
When eye wake up next 2 U
Eye reminisce on what we do
Any morning U please
U want me
Pendulum, the velvet swing
Torso wrapped in scissors bring
Out the banshee colored wail, b b baby
U want me
Eye want U 2