Purple Is The Color

Purple Is The Color

Chorus

Who is this cat?

Juking and a jiving

Like a post ghetto survivor

Cleaning my windshield

So I could see clear to Manitoba

Getting over the flu again

Getting over on the government

Getting over my phobias

Purple is the color

Of independence and protest

Purple is the color

Of my house in Minnesota

Verse 1

The purple rain

Allows me to be

Anonymous

As I tend to the needs

Of those in crisis

With a deadpan

Sense of humor

But most sincerely

I can pay

For the medicine

Just like a pizza

Delivery is free

Verse 2

The raspberry beret

Is timeless

Like a watch from Cartier

And the style of the day

Always came back

Around

Like a carousel

Spinning joy

The carefree girl

And the shy self - conscious boy

Practiced their discovery

Very intensely

Verse 3

If 1999

Was the party

That started

Sent me on my way

I got to the places

Where the only the few

Ever learned to play

Well, with the best

Pushing the envelope

Condemning moderation

A joker will jest

And become disoriented