Just wanted to share one of my all time favourite songs with you. I’d link you to YouTube but unfortunately Prince likes to play the role of Copyright police and refuses his music to be there which is a great shame, in my opinion. But ah well.

It’s called ‘Sometimes it snows in April’ and it’s performed by one of my musical heroes; Prince. Written by the man himself with two of his then band members Wendy and Lisa, this was the final track of a soundtrack album Prince wrote/recorded for a film called ‘Under the Cherry Moon’. I came across this song two years ago when watching a Prince documentary and fell in love with it. I honestly believe it’s one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

I guess some would argue it’s ‘boring’ and ‘long’ but I think it’s one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. I love the rawness of it – it was reportedly recorded in just one take, hence why you can hear noises such squeaky stools and fingers on guitar strings.

There’s much speculation of what this song is about. The most common is that it was simply written about the character in ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ which makes sense considering it is the soundtrack album for it! But I love the other spins too. Some say it was about Prince ‘killing off’ an alter ego he had at the time whilst others say it was about a real life friend he had.

I just find it such a melancholic yet poetic and pretty song. The lyric “Those kinda cars don’t pass you everyday” is genius in its context. Also love the opening line “Tracey died soon after a long fought civil war”. Many believe that line is about someone who has suffered from depression or something similar.

I know many will consider it just a dull and depressing song but it’s one I love very much and it means a lot to me.