Lyrics Live 4 Love (2023 remaster) - Prince

(Launch procedure commence)
(Countdown start)
(Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four)

Keep goin'

(Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins)

30-thousand feet and still-a-counting (live for love)
The attack on my plane is steadily mounting (live for love)
They killed my buddy, I'm supposed to feel nothing (live for love)

How can I live for love? (I'm calling)
Live for love
Live for love (I'm calling)
Live for love (I'm calling)
Live for love

Kicked out of my home at 17 (live for love)
(Get outta here)
A real family (hah)
What does that mean? (What does that mean?)
(Live for love)
Don't nobody know the trouble I've seen? (Live for love)

How can I live for love? (I'm calling)
Live for love (ooh)
Live for love (ooh)
Live for love (calling, I'm calling)
Live for love

(Live for love)
My mission, so they said, was just to drop the bombs
(Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins)
Just like I got no conscience
Just like I got no qualms
(Alpha 7, acknowledge)
Ah!
Now what does that mean?

Go, Tommy, go, go, Tommy, go
Go, Tommy, go, go, Tommy, go
Go, Tommy, go, go, Tommy, go
Go, Tommy, go, go, Tommy, go

So here, my target is approaching
The angel on my shoulder starts coaching

"Live for love, without love you don't live"

Whoo, whoo

Boom!
I take a deep breath
Is it, boom, life?
Is it, boom, death?

Live for love

Maybe I was better off staying in school (live for love)
But everybody said flying planes was cool (live for love)
It's so easy for them to say
'Cause they never have to go through

How can I live for love? (Live for love)
I'm calling!
(Live for love) I'm calling!
(Live for love) ahh! I'm calling!
(Live for love) ow!
(Live for love) oh, Lord!
(Live for love)
(Live for-)

Damn, I got hit, but I still complete the mission (live for love)
I flash up on my whole life, just a steady wishin' (live for love)
The choice you make is vital
So at the end of my recital
I say, "You got to live for love" (for love)

(Keep goin')

Live for love
Live for love
Live for love
(Live for love)
(Live for love)
Live (live for love)

Live for love, without love, you don't live
And how you make it is based on what you're givin' back
In fact, only a few of us slip through the cracks
Through generations
The cards have always been stacked against us (live for love)

To love each other is a must
If you just trust and cut the fuss
Believe me, unity is a must
Listen everybody, as I spread the word
Everything is hazy when your vision's blurred
I'm kickin' reality in the streets of the city

There's this mentality what goes around, comes around
And gank any clown who ain't down with the colors that you're sportin' 'round
Listen, G, you are supposed to be
Strivin' to be the best that you can be
So stop tryin' to dominate and push and shove (live for love)
C'mon, y'all, we got to live for love

(Live for love)
(Live for love)
(Live for love)
(Live for love)

(Love, love)
(Hah, huhaahah, huhahaa)

(Live for love)
(Live for love)
(Live for love)
(Live for love)