When You Were Mine [SEQUEL TO THE GIRL IS MINE]

Last Sessions/The Music Video

376: INT. PAISLEY PARK (STUDIO) DAY FADE IN: 

One month later, late March, 1992. Rachael is finishing up recording for her next album. 

RACHAEL: (singing)
There was a man, a lonely man
Who lost his love through his indifference
A heart that cared, that went unshared
Until it died within his silence
And solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
And by himself it's easy to pretend
He'll never love again
And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire
A little hope goes up in smoke
Just how it goes, goes without saying
There was a man, a lonely man
Who would command the hand he's playing
And solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
And by himself it's easy to pretend
He'll never love again
And keeping to himself he plays the game
Without her love it always ends the same
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire
And solitaire's the only game in town
And every road that takes him takes him down
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire...

PRINCE: Rach, that was pure gold. If Neil Sedaka was here he'd shit himself. 

RACHAEL: (laughs) Thanks, hopefully if he does hear it he'll think I did his song justice. 

PRINCE: Trust me, you did it justice. Let's keep going. (plays the next track) 

RACHAEL: (starts singing)
I've played the game of love before
Too young to know how hard the fall could be
I never thought I'd try again
Somehow you brought the gambler out in me
You can deal me in this time around
Even though the odds are high we'll play them down
You may be a chance I need to take
And the hand I'm holding says it's no mistake
Happy is the way I'm feeling
And I know it comes from being with you
All at once my life is changing
And I know it's 'cause I'm falling in love with you
Falling in love with you
Falling in love
Falling in love with you
If this is luck then let it ride
If it's the stars they're surely on my side
I've never been so satisfied
By love before for all the times I've tried
These beginnings could mean more
Than the brief affair I bargained for
Little did I know when we began
That my time had come to win a hand
Happy is the way I'm feeling
And I know it comes from being with you
All at once my life is changing
And I know it's 'cause I'm falling in love with you
Falling in love with you
Falling in love
Falling in love with you
Please forgive me if I seem
To be walking through a waking dream
Laughter never came so easily
There's a freedom here that's new to me
Happy is the way I'm feeling
And I know it comes from being with you
All at once my life is changing
And I know it's 'cause I'm falling in love with you
Falling in love with you
Falling in love
Falling in love with you...

PRINCE: That was really sweet Rach. 

RACHAEL: Thanks, I wrote it for Michael.