2045: Radical Man Lyrics - Prince

{Spoken with crowd cheering in background} 

How can a non-musician discuss the future of music from anything other than a 

consumer point of view? 

These few people make decisions for the bulk of us, without consulting any of 

us. 

Sales and distributions of our futures, uh! 

If this world were fair and right, they'd give up the car keys this very 

night./Damn! 

(Hit it!) 

Two, three, four, five, six, seven 

Flash forward, 2045 

What did you stand for in the life of your pride 

When faced with the final judgment of today 

Who profitted from the game 

That you and your niggas play 

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Radical man/Save the life 

Come on take a stand 

Give that money back 

Let's make a plan 

The brand new currency 

Taking care of one another 

You and me 

(Radical man) 

Flash backwards, 1999 (backwards, 1999) 

In a world shot full of viruses, see (Tell me) 

How'd y'all stay alive? (Everyone of y'all) 

Depending on this so called man 

For everything you got comes from his hand 

Food, water, the clothes you wear 

How many of y'all niggas really care? 

To care (to care) 

Let's define this word nigga (define, define) 

Someone who stays high (high) 

Watching their life go by (by, by) 

Someone content with riding behind (ride that) 

Nigga 

Photos 

They come in all colors 

White, black, Puerto Rican 

Is that the main niggas we're speakin' about? 

Wear suits and buy and sell corporations 

With only one thing in mind 

(Only one thing in mind) 

(Break it up!) 

That is the destruction of the so-called radical man 

By 2045 

(Let's get radical) 

Watch me now! 

School's in the yard, digital games 

When the war broke out we called your name 

(What's your name?) 

Everyone of color put on the front line 

Holocaust Avenue, 2009 

Get an education, good job who says? (say) 

Fool with the gold rush drinkin' Alize 

I don't play nobody that's makin' no sense today 

You got your own mind, so you think it's ok (It's not ok) 

Telling themselves lies, Mos Def say 

Where you gonna stay, nigga 

(Where you gonna stay nigga) 

(Oh my God, it's the Green Mile!) 

What's up y'all? 

What y'all wanna do? (Talkin' about a radical man) 

Ain't nobody up in their crew no? 

I could really run that computer 

Make it flow (flow flow flow flow flow) 

If you ain't born with it (Radical man) 

Talkin' about the two and four, hit me! 

Wait up 

What George say., all around 

Alright 

We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo 

We playin' D-flat in the funk 

You better act like you know 

We don't care, what Albert Einstein did 

I'd rather know, rather know (what?) 

How to build a pyramid 

Hey!/James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimmy 

Turn me up louder now 

I don't think y'all hear me (I don't hear ya) 

2045/We will stay alive 

2045 (yeah, everybody now) 

The war is on outside 

And the whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream 

(A bad dream) 

The day you will wake is the day you get the real cream, nigga 

Radical man (Radical man) 

Who got the gift, who got the plan? 

Radical man (Radical man) 

Who got the gift, who got the plan? 

This is the funk the industry most fears 

Artists getting together 

In a locker board of directors/I don't think so 

Nobody's running this 

Let's talk about DNA, nigga 

The radical man 

{Spoken with crowd cheering in background} 

Where will you be in 2045? 

30 million people right now, are being wiped off the face of the planet by 

disease. 

They claim they have no cure. 

In the matter of a blinking eye, 

all of us right now can testify. 

Take a stand, radical man.