Sometimes It Snows In April: The Tale Of An Apocalyptic Prince

Yesterday, I made the announcement that Prince died. It was simple. I wasn’t too excited about going into some half-cocked conspiracy theory about his death. I was ashamed to see that immediately after his death, armchair conspiracy theorists pulled all sorts of unproven nonsense out of their hats to use as clickbait about the singer. I for one, am the type to separate from all of the cliché’s these conspiracy theorists fall into.

Many of them, no one has ever heard of, and their dime store theories have the typical prose of Illuminati sacrifice, faking of the death, and since he was an activist against Chemtrails, someone just decided it was time to silence him.

Now a lot of what is being said may be true but I would be on the side of level headedness for the sake of respect to a singer that was an icon and a mega talented individual.

Prince’s unexpected death contributes and appears to be a lynch pin in a list of monumental musical losses that are hard to accept.

Not just that, he is part of troubling list of those we say have gone too soon.

When a celebrity dies, especially at a relatively young age, we shake our heads and wonder at times when our time is going to be up. 2006 has been a cruel year for the passing for notable celebrities that are seen as immortal. We have a piece of them forever embedded in our consciousness because of appearances they have made in television shows and movies.

In the case of a fallen musician, we can listen to them on things like vinyl, and tape. Most young people today see this as an archaic way of listening to their message. However, in the digital bites that form sound out of an MP3 or CD player we find the soul of the musician. When the musician dies, the sounds become ghostly or haunting and we can have them return to us suspended in time by the miracle of electronics.

This is a form of immortality.

Pop culture today is becoming a paranormal ride with synchronicities and twilight language that hints to all of us that things happen for a reason, and perhaps the trickster has a hand at creating fast spinning coincidences surrounding a celebrity’s death.

There are times when the pop culture stories tend to get a little paranormal. I kind of dread these moments because people often tend to become cynical and say there are far more important things to talk about and that it is a waste of time to indulge in a bit of pop communion.

We have gone through this exercise too many times this year and like the many musicians that died before him, we wanted Prince to be with us in our world for a longer time than he was.

While the country is in disbelief, there is a finite group of people who are mourning Prince in their own special way. I guess you could say that what I want to present is my way of mourning. It is my way of letting people know that life is fragile and as I age in this wild world, I am beginning to understand a sobering reality and that is our modern musical icons are slipping away.

Prince was pronounced dead shortly after being found unresponsive in an elevator in his Paisley Park compound in Minneapolis.

That detail is haunting because of the bizarre connection to a line in his hit song, “Let’s Go Crazy,” in which he sings about the afterlife and punching a higher floor on the elevator of life that can bring you down in the song’s prologue.

“Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called life

Electric word life
It means forever and that’s a mighty long time
But I’m here to tell you
There’s something else
The after world

A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night

So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, Dr. Everything’ll Be Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby

‘Cause in this life
Things are much harder than in the after world
In this life
You’re on your own

And if the elevator tries to bring you down
Go crazy, punch a higher floor.”

Many people do not know that when Prince wrote the song, The Elevator, what he spoke of was a metaphor for the devil.

“Are we gonna let the elevator bring us down? Oh, no, let’s go.

Are you going to let the devil, bring you down? Punch a higher floor; you know the one, that one that is above hell, the one that will be heaven.”

In another eerie coincidence, his former girlfriend and protégé, Denise Katrina Matthews, died in February from renal failure after severe drug use throughout the ’80s. Prince paid tribute to her during a show in Melbourne just hours after learning of her death.

The pair met at the American Music Awards in 1980 and Prince immediately renamed her, Vanity.

A career in B movies and modeling suddenly catapulted after meeting Prince. After their three-year relationship, she dated rock stars such as Billy Idol and Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue.

She later became a born again Christian and an evangelist. In interviews looking back at her life, she once said:

“I’d inhaled enough crack cocaine so that by the age of 35, you could light me up, smoke me and stick me in the nearest cold grave,” before her commitment to Jesus she said: “Easily, the devil had won me and readied my tired body for hell.”

In the 1980’s a lot of Prince’s music was actually based on his views of the apocalypse.

The album, 1999, was Prince’s entertaining take on the end of the world. The song, 1999, was Prince’s idea of conveying that the world is doomed and that our reaction should be to experience as much pleasure as possible before going into the next life.

The song also is a foreshadowing of what he thought the end of the world would look like. In the song we hear:

I was dreamin’ when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray
But when I woke up this mornin’
Coulda sworn it was judgment day
The sky was all purple,
There were people runnin’ everywhere
Tryin’ 2 run from the destruction,
U know I didn’t even care..

When the song closes with “Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?” with a vocal effect that makes Prince’s voice seem childlike, the ghost of war and reality of imminent self-destruction is present in the song and when I was younger, I often wondered if he meant it all to a be a prophetic warning of purple skies, the sun as sackcloth and atomic annihilation.

In a strange coincidence, Prince performed in the Netherlands in 1998 and during his performance of 1999 began saying some words that no one understood at the time, but looking back they are chilling.

In the performance he not only asked “Mommy, why does everybody have a Bomb?” he also stated that he needed to go back to America and prepare for the bomb.

His exact words were:

“I gotta go back to America, I gotta go get ready for the bomb, Osama bin Laden getting ready to bomb, Osama bin Laden getting ready to bomb, America you’d better watch out, 2001 hit me!”

Many of Prince’s fans speculated for a long time that Prince was into apocalyptic conspiracy theories. So much so that he appeared to have predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York. He urged his fans not to become enslaved by the corporate wolves.

David Icke recalls that one day out of nowhere he got an invitation to go and meet him and attend one of his concerts in 2007 at the O2 arena in London.

Prince was an avid reader of Icke’s books and wanted to speak with him. Icke, who never really attended concerts, spoke highly of the show and said that Prince was a man that was beyond normal. That flowing through him was revelations of the future and an assurance that there was an afterlife and there were forces at work out to enslave us.

In 2009, Prince made a rare appearance on television appeared on PBS to talk with Tavis Smiley to discuss misinterpreted lyrics, why he doesn’t vote and other insights about life. One of the strangest moments in the interview comes when Prince is talking about “Dreamer,” an ode to comedian Dick Gregory that is on the Album Lotus Flower, and he brings up Chemtrails.

Of course, this has become a staple for conspiracy theorists that are now claiming that Prince was killed for revealing the truth about Chemtrails. There is an odd coincidence about this theory, however, and that is Merle Haggard who died April 6th 2016, also spoke out against Chemtrails. In his Song “what I hate he sings “What I hate is looking up and seeing Chemtrails in a clear blue sky today.”

Once again a lyrical doppelganger to Prince’s idea of a Purplish sky full of clouds in the apocalypse.

Which brings us to the song, Purple Rain – the song that everyone remembers as a fitting tribute to the iconic musical genius?

Purple Rain, as beautiful as it is, is also about the end of the world.

The “Purple Rain” soundtrack spent 24 weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard charts although the title track only hit Number 2.

Prince once said of the song that he envisioned Armageddon or the end of the world with blood and fire in the sky. When there’s blood in the sky – red and blue, he believed it would turn it purple… purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith in God guide you through the purple rain.

Coincidentally, just days before Prince passed away, Thousands were thrown into a state of panic in the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador on Sunday, April 17, 2016, when a huge fireball that appeared suddenly over the city of Chalchuapa in the Santa Ana region of the country, turned the night sky blood red, some even said that when the sky was illuminated the blue was seen in the night sky combining with the red making the sky look sunset purple.

Many who realized that the transformation was likely caused by a meteor panicked out of fear that a huge space rock was about to hit and incinerate the city.

Just before that report Prince’s rep claimed for the past few weeks the music icon had been suffering from the flu, which resulted in two cancelled concerts in Atlanta on April 7. The singer wanted to do a show the night of April 14, despite still not feeling well. Prince was traveling home to Minnesota by plane on April 15 when his plane made an emergency landing in Illinois because his conditioned worsened. An ambulance took him to the hospital, and he was discharged after just a few hours.

After the health scare, Prince tweeted, “I am #transformed.”

To prove that point, Prince invited fans to his compound in Minnesota the next day for a major dance party, and although he didn’t perform, he took the stage to entertain the crowd, and let them know his health was just fine.

“Wait a few days before you waste any prayers,” he told the audience of around 200. Things took a tragic turn, though, because on April 21, just five days later he was found dead in his home.

His last Instagram message was “JUST WHEN YOU WERE SAFE.”

His death happened coincidentally on the day known by occultists as the day of the Feast of Moloch, the fire god or demon the ancient Ammonite people would make blood sacrifices to. It was also on the day that the facsimile of the Arch of Palmyra was erected in Britain. The Monumental Arch, also called the Arch of Triumph or the Arch of Septimius Severus is a doppelganger of a Roman ornamental archway in Palmyra, Syria.

It was built in the 3rd century during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus. Its ruins later became one of the main attractions of Palmyra. The arch was destroyed by ISIS ant in October 2015.

The Monumental Arch was built sometime during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, which lasted from 193 to 211 AD; it linked the main street of the Colonnade and the Temple of Baal, another horned God where ancient Canaanites sacrificed children.

Coincidentally, Romulus Founded Rome on April 21st, 753 B.C. The United Nations Supervision mission in Syria began on April 21st, 2012, and on this day The Queen of England celebrated her 90th birthday and Prince died at 57 at his home.

It is also coincidental the Queen observed her Diamond Jubilee when Whitney Houston died.

Niagara Falls turned purple Thursday night to honor Queen Elizabeth on her 90th birthday; however, reporters were thinking that illuminating the falls with purple lights was in honor of Prince.

The coincidence was eerie and the Niagara Parks board was forced to comment on the matter. They wrote in the press release:

“Yesterday, Niagara Falls was scheduled to be illuminated purple commemorating the 90th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II,” Niagara Parks wrote. “As fate would have it, on the same day the world lost a remarkable talent with the sudden passing of Prince… Niagara Parks, along with the Niagara Falls Illumination Board, may be responsible for lighting the falls, but the meaning that visitors interpret from these displays is entirely up to them. For some, yesterday’s purple illumination marked a milestone birthday for Canada’s longest serving monarch. For many others, it acknowledged the untimely passing of a music icon.”

Observers were told to frame it how they wanted, and of course many people including the conspiracy theorists have framed it the way they see fit. I also have given my spin on the matter.

However, there are some poignant lyrics that I want to share with you in my final words on the matter.

I don’t think many people remember the failed Prince film “Under a Cherry Moon.”

Prince played a character in the film named Christopher Tracy a man who lived for all women but died for one. It was and unquestionably ridiculous film, but there is a song from its soundtrack that applies more to his death than songs like “When Doves Cry or Purple Rain.”

The song is called, “Sometimes it Snows in April.” The song is a requiem for the passing of Christopher Tracy, a foreshadowing of Princes death.

The lyrics are appropriate as a eulogy for the character and a eulogy for Prince. If you replace the name of Tracy in the lyrics and add Prince you will see how it is appropriate:

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad
Sometimes I wish life was never ending,
And all good things, they say, never last

Springtime was always my favorite time of year,
A time for lovers holding hands in the rain
Now springtime only reminds me of Prince’s tears
Always cry for love, never cry for pain
He used to stay so strong unafraid to die
Unafraid of the death that left me hypnotized
No, staring at his picture I realized
No one could cry the way my Prince cried

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad
Sometimes, sometimes I wish that life was never ending,
And all good things, they say, never last

I often dream of heaven and I know that Prince is there
I know that he has found another friend
Maybe he’s found the answer to all the April snow
Maybe one day I’ll see my Prince again.

Whenever a celebrity dies unexpectedly at a young age, you learn to expect speculation to run rampant. I suppose it was always so, but what’s different today is that the speculation is about another Star to the list of those I loved growing up. I guess this is my way of giving my farewell.

Good night sweet Prince.

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