Family Name

[Intro; Prince]

Welcome, you have just accessed

The Akashic Records Genetic Information Division

This program is required for those wishing

To obtain a marriage blessing from the Kingdom

When you wish to begin this program

Place your right hand on the scanner

And tightly clench up your butt cheeks

As you might feel a slight electrical shock

Please, select the race history you desire

You have selected African American, this is your history

[Spoken: Prince]

First of all, the term, black and white is a fallacy

It simply is another way of saying, this or that

Let's examine the term, this or that in its ultimate form

Which is, this means the truth or that which is resistant to it

When a minority realizes its similarities on a higher level

Not just black but people of color and higher, still indigenous

And even higher, still from the tribe of and yet higher

The rainbow children, when this understanding comes

The so-called minority becomes a majority in the wink of an eye

This action will cause a reaction or resistance

The source of this resistance must be banished

As it is in direct conflict with the initial action

It cannot be assimilated, for its very nature is resistance

In other words, one cannot serve two masters

You are either this, or that which is not this

End of part one, to continue, select the program

Family name and type in the current government

Name you wish history on

[Spoken Interlude: Femi Jiya and Morris Hayes]

London, England sometime in the early 1600s

We have the God given right to run out of our colonies

Anyone who does not bow down to our law, hear, hear

Come on, come on keep it moving here, what's your name boy?

Abu Cah

Well it ain't now, it's Tom Lynch

[Verse 1: Prince]

Mirror, mirror what you see?

Have I still got those dark clouds over me?

Or am I really feeling what I feel?

The last days of the Devil's deal

Mirror, what you see?

[Verse 2: Prince]

Devil, devil, what you know?

You been here since 1914 but now you got to go

You been hiding behind corporate eyes

You want to war but you can't fight

Devil, you got to go, yes sir

[Chorus: Prince]

Bridge

You might say, "What you mad about?"

But you still got your family name

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Rosen Bloom

I'll be John Blackwell just the same

What's your family name?

[Verse 3: Prince]

Teacher, teacher what you say?

Did we really come over in a boat?

Did it really go down that way?

Or did I arrive before you, ruin Thanksgiving Day?

Teacher, what you say?

[Verse 5: Prince]

Preacher, preacher, is it true

That Jesus wants me to give my money to the likes of you?

Ride around in your Lexus Coupe

Drive us to the cleaners in a pinstripe suit

Preacher, that ain't truth

[Chorus: Prince]

To the bridge

You might say, "What you mad about?

But you still got your family name

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Pearlman

You can call me Clay

Can I play?

[Verse 6: Prince]

People, people what's your name?

Maybe, we should start all over

Let everybody get in the game

Put up a one gloved fist

Make a sound, Violet Brown

[Outro: Prince and Martin Luther King Jr.]

You might say, "What you mad about?

You still got your Family name

Pleased to meet you, Mr. Gold Struck

We found this tape in the Akashic records

This is Thomas Jefferson

My fellow Americans, if there is a just God

We're going to pay for this

Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics

We'll be able to join hands in the words of the old Negro spiritual

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last