After listening to this song and looking at the lyrics I felt compelled to remix it. It’s a story about a Love Revolution. The revolutionaries are “The Rainbow Children” who overthrow the So-called angels of light ”The Banished Ones" who had taken over the world, except for the palace of the "Rainbow Children", which they had surround with a “Digital Garden” to keep them oppressed.
Metaphorically speaking this story can be compared to what’s going on in our country today which is why I chose to work on the remix. I just hope I haven’t offended Prince’s musical genius in my attempt to give our dance floors something we can dance to and that also has a story about a Love Revolution within it.
Love, like a rose in bloom
All of the Rainbow Children will feel it soon
To the east, word traveled about this energy
Until it reached the Banished Ones
Who just wanted this love to cease
They now fallen in to
The Resistor's dream
And they built a Digital Garden
Or so it seemed
In this brilliant darkness
So-called angels of light
"Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies"
And all the Rainbow Children
Will stand and fight
For everlasting, everlasting life
For the one who sits on the right
For Him we're willing to do the work
The Banished Ones approaching the palace shouted obscenities.
They tried to confuse the Rainbow Children and dethrone their king.
Using the lies promoted by the whose papers, hellavisions, and scagazines
The Banished Ones constructed a Digital Garden around the palace
That extended throughout the world.
Furthermore they demanded compensation
For their time spent in the palace before the exile.
This was noise! "So be it, " said the Wise One,
And gladly obliged with an invisible deed.
The Banished Ones accepted and returned to their place of birth in Mendacity.
As for the Rainbow Children, they began deconstructing the Digital Garden.
Door to door they went in search of those willing to do The Work.
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released August 31, 2019
Songwriters: Prince Rogers Nelson
Brighton alt-folk collective the Self Help Group receive the psychedelic electronic treatment courtesy of veteran producer Sumsuch. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 15, 2020