Love... Thy Will B Done (the song & appreciation thereof)

So this is gonna be about the song Martika first took to radio.

I don't remember the year just now. I know at the time I bought the cassette single of the song and played it everywhere. It's such a powerful expression of deity-free spiritual bliss that spun its new power magick inside me.

I still have that tape. I know the song like a long lost lover. I know the song in my head and my heart.

For most of the common folk Prince peaked in the 1980s with that atrocious "new romantic" pastels and lace look so common on the Revolution in the Purple Rain era.

For me, it was the 1990s. From the shadows of Batman, the majesty of D&P, the beginning of the crumbling of the majesty we were promised with 0(+>.

The fade from the popular scene that followed. I could go on all night about that and all the turncoats and fakers that were exposed among the fans in that era.

The point is that Love...Thy Will B Done is an epic song, impressive and awesome. It is a part of me. It is quite possibly the perfect collab, the top of the very impressive heap of songs he didn't just write himself.

I chanced to read a scrap of a story about P on my cellphone during a horrific blur of 'the world's longest bad day' that I recently endured.

Baz Luhrman said something brief about how LTWBD was meant to be a part of one of his film projects. But the rights couldn't be secured in time, or without extraordinary effort. So it never happened.

This is another track that may very well await us in some future release from the legendary Vault.

I was a regular at Paisley Park "rehearsals" between 1994 and 1996. During this period, before Gold Experience and Come were released...our symbol-named fellow played Love...Thy Will with a searing prominent guitar solo, in epic fashion. He did it several times.

I think this is one of the defining moments of my life. I cried. I felt the music thundering through me and the room was so loud I sung along at the top of my lungs to every single word. I shouted and cheered like a crazy person as the band faded to silence at the end.

If you have the bootlegs maybe you can hear me going fanboy insane.

If there are any studio versions of those searing, angelic, anthemic gold-symbol guitar solos he played on that song...I hope we're offered some way to hear that someday.

All respect and patience to the men entrusted with the Vault. We trust you will do him proud, and we're willing to wait for you to get it right on the first try.