This song is about Prince. It’s also about the importance of having people in your life who love or respect you enough to stand up and tell you to knock it off.

Love, X
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Dearly Beloved

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life

Even the prince of music faltered
It started with pain from performance
And ended as it must, even for a music god

He had countless friends and managers
All were sideliners to his downfall

Why didn’t they stop him people might ask
Maybe they did in a private space

But you have to ask yourself
How often has a friend stopped you
Would you listen if they did?

We fool ourselves into superiority
That won’t happen to us
We are made from exotic dust

This is what it sounds like when doves don’t cry

But if he couldn’t do it
You better find your purple banana

He was a man of 1 million melodies
but never wrote his swan song

You or someone around you right now
Fails to appreciate the danger

He had it wrong about the Grim Reaper
The reaper fails to respect who you are

Why don’t we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like when doves don’t cry
It is silence when an objection is needed

If you know what I’m singing about up here,
come on and raise your hand

Don’t let down your guard
even if you sing like a dirty angel

This is what it sounds like when doves don’t cry
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