P.M. Dawn is an American hip hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrel… Read Full Bio ↴P.M. Dawn is an American hip hop act, formed in 1988 by the brothers Attrell Cordes (known by his stage name Prince Be, sometimes credited as Prince Be the Nocturnal) and Jarrett Cordes (known as DJ Minutemix) in Jersey City, New Jersey. They earned significant crossover success in the early 1990s with music that merged hip hop, older soul, and more pop-oriented urban R&B.
After recording their debut single "Ode to a Forgetful Mind" in 1988, P.M. Dawn released their first album Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience in 1991 to critical acclaim. It achieved immediate commercial success because of its single "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss". Their 1993 follow-up The Bliss Album...? was also praised by critics and featured the hit singles "I'd Die Without You" and "Looking Through Patient Eyes". P.M. Dawn continued to receive strong reviews, but sold poorly with their subsequent albums Jesus Wept (1995) and Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad (1998).

The Cordes brothers' father died of pneumonia when they were children. Further family tragedy occurred when their baby brother, Duncan, drowned at the age of two. The two elder brothers were raised by their mother and their stepfather George Brown, a founding member of Kool & the Gang.

Prince Be began DJing parties and composing songs in ninth grade. Within a few years, he had determined to make a demo tape of some of those pieces with the $600 he had set aside from his after school job as a security guard at a homeless shelter. By then, he and his brother were putting in studio time as P.M. Dawn.

They first approached Tommy Boy Records, the rap music subsidiary of Warner Brothers, with their demo, but they were told that they were too much like alternative hip-hoppers De La Soul, and not hardcore or ghetto, and were turned away. Eventually, Warlock, an independent record label, issued a debut single, "Ode to a Forgetful Mind", in 1989, but it went unnoticed.

The record label that released the single in the United Kingdom, Gee Street Records, found greater success. Gee Street mixed and marketed the song so that it earned considerable attention from music reviewers, and P.M. Dawn found themselves courted not just by Gee Street's head, Jon Baker, but also by most of the major UK record labels. Gee Street brought the brothers to London in 1990 to record tracks for an album; however, the label found itself facing bankruptcy during the recording. The entire Gee Street operation, along with P.M. Dawn's recording contract, was sold to the highest bidder, Island Records. Island issued a few more singles in the United Kingdom before releasing their debut album, Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience.

Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross featured the international hit "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", which sampled the Spandau Ballet song "True", and featured a cameo by Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley in the music video of the song. "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" hit #1 the week of November 30, 1991, and holds the distinction of being the first #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart following the introduction of Nielsen SoundScan to the chart. The song also reached #3 in the United Kingdom. "Paper Doll", which was one of the early singles Island released in the United Kingdom, was released in the US as a follow-up to "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", and peaked at #28 in early 1992. "Paper Doll" is said well over 100 times in the song, which makes it second only to MC Hammer's "Pray", which holds the record for the most times a title is repeated in a US Top 40 hit (147).

With the success of their debut album, the band parted company with their manager Nick Hemmings and embarked on a world tour. During this world tour, a statement Prince Be made in Details magazine led Boogie Down Productions' KRS-One and his crew to storm the stage during a P.M. Dawn concert, forcing the group off the stage and performing three BDP classics. To warrant this reaction from KRS-One, Prince B had asked, "KRS-One wants to be a teacher, but a teacher of what?" Defending his motives to USA Today's James T. Jones IV, KRS-One remarked, "I answered his question. 'A teacher of what?' I'm a teacher of respect."

In 1992, P.M. Dawn appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD Red Hot + Dance, contributing the Richie Rich Mix of "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss". The album, featuring George Michael and Madonna among others, was meant to raise money and awareness in support of the AIDS epidemic.

Before releasing their follow-up album, The Bliss Album…? (Vibrations of Love and Anger and the Ponderance of Life and Existence), P.M. Dawn contributed the single "I'd Die Without You" to the 1992 Eddie Murphy comedy Boomerang and its soundtrack. This #2 pop hit was also included on The Bliss Album…?, as was the Billboard #2 pop hit "Looking Through Patient Eyes".

"Looking Through Patient Eyes" featured backing vocals by Cathy Dennis and sampled George Michael's hit "Father Figure". The music video for the song was shot in a church, and featured Christian images throughout — most notably, Prince Be wore a T-shirt with "Thank you, Jesus" written across it in black lettering.

The Bliss Album…? featured the Boy George duet "More Than Likely" and a cover of The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". The album also included "So On and So On," which led to a 1999 sampling lawsuit. In the lawsuit Batiste v. Island Records, Inc., Paul and Michael Batiste claimed that P.M. Dawn's song "So On and So On" used unauthorized samples from David Batiste & The Gladiators' "Funky Soul". The fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court found that the Batistes point to no evidence in the record demonstrating that consumers were confused or deceived by either the use of a digital sample of "Funky Soul" in "So On and So On", or the attribution to David Batiste as a co-author of the track. The Batistes' claim that Paul and Michael Batiste were improperly excluded from the liner notes accompanying the album also failed to suggest that consumers were confused, especially because the liner notes do credit the name of the band in which both Paul and Michael Batiste performed. Though Island Records won the lawsuit, the song was removed from subsequent releases of The Bliss Album and is no longer available for purchase in their publishing catalog.

P.M. Dawn contributed a cover of "You Got Me Floatin'" to the 1993 compilation album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Artists ranging from Pat Metheny to Eric Clapton to Ice-T's Body Count were included.

Their 1995 album Jesus Wept was unable to attain the success of their first two albums. The album's highest charting single was "Downtown Venus", which contained a sample of Deep Purple's "Hush", and reached #48 on the Billboard chart. Also, in 1995, P.M. Dawn was credited with the remix of White Zombie's "Blood, Milk and Sky" (Miss September Mix) on the Supersexy Swingin' Sounds compilation album. In 1996, P.M. Dawn contributed "Non-Fiction Burning" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1998, Prince Be contributed the tracks "Perfect for You" and "Gotta Be...Movin' on Up" to the Marlon Wayans and David Spade comedy Senseless, followed later in the year by P.M. Dawn's fourth album, Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad. It was less successful again, with the album's single, "Being So Not for You (I Had No Right)" being a minor chart hit.

In the same year, Jarret Cordes (DJ Minutemix) was accused of sexually abusing a 14-year old relative and was subsequently arrested in Burlington County. The girl is said to have been a "close relative".

In 2000, they released the compilation, The Best of P.M. Dawn. Through their website, they also began selling a mail-order-only album called Fucked Music on December 1, 2000. This was paired with a bonus CD, Unreleased Vol. 1, and a T-shirt.

Prince Be suffered a massive stroke in early 2005 that left him paralyzed on the left side of his body. Undeterred, P.M. Dawn appeared on NBC's Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, performing "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", and covered Puddle of Mudd's "Blurry". Despite the fact that Prince Be was still suffering the effects of this stroke, they beat Animotion, Missing Persons, Juice Newton and Shannon to claim the $20,000 charitable prize, which they contributed to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, as Prince Be was a diabetic.

Following their appearance on Hit Me, Baby, One More Time, Minutemix was terminated for misconduct. This led to the introduction of the Cordes brothers' paternal first cousin, Gregory Lewis Carr II, known by his stage name Doc. G (also known as 'Dr. Giggles' or 'Blissboy #2'.)

On May 15, 2010, Prince Be's 40th birthday, Doc. G performed in Manila before an audience of 50,000 people and dedicated the performance to Guru of Gang Starr and Francis M.

On June 17, 2016, Prince Be died of renal disease at the age of 46.

Doc. G continues to perform and record music under the P.M. Dawn name. On April 6, 2018, Doc.G announced K-R.O.K. as a new member of P.M. Dawn.

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Sometimes I Miss You So Much
P.M. Dawn Lyrics

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I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

There are only whispers and shadows for me
The way things are the way things are
And with this I blow a kiss to disaster
Because I wish to perfect my heart...
I gotta check my mind...
Am I in tune with you?
Do we connect within the realm of the gods?
Electric word "life" that means forever
and that's a mighty long time when you've kissed
Divine
So divine... as with you
The Christ within will come in the clouds
Trusting "divinity is always with you"
Trusting "this is the here and now"
Mercy's right... I gotta check my love
and I'm trying to do as such
I don't let the demons get me down
It's just that sometimes I miss you so much...

Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

I can envision all things to life
I can understand realistic ways
But I invent the next phase in forever
I like you, rewrite the next page
It's so pristine... It's so untouched
I'm an immaculate sign of devotion
Still unseen... I'm thinking so what
Bless me cursed with colorful emotions
God said "I guess you don't know I'm you
because you know the entire 360"
A Christ, that's me
the Christ, that's you
Regardless... constantly within me
I'm not so responsible for this
I'm just a man in love with so much
I know love... you'll always be with me
It's just sometimes I miss you so much

Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
Sometimes I miss you
I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...

Overall Meaning

In P.M. Dawn's song "Sometimes I Miss You So Much," the singer expresses the depth of his feelings towards someone he cares for. The lyrics strike a balance between raw emotion and thoughtful self-reflection. The singer acknowledges that sometimes he misses the person so much that it's hard to deal with, but he also recognizes the deeper connection they share.

The lines "There are only whispers and shadows for me, the way things are" suggest that the circumstances of their relationship might be difficult or complicated. Despite this, the singer still wants to perfect his heart and feel a connection with this person on a divine level.

The lyrics also touch on themes of spirituality and love. The singer asks whether he and his partner "connect within the realm of the gods," and references the "Christ within" and the "electric word 'life' that means forever." These lines suggest a belief in a higher power and the idea that love can transcend physical boundaries.

Overall, the song is a touching tribute to the complexity of love and the struggles of maintaining a deep connection with someone. It's a reminder that even when things are tough, the bond between two people can be incredibly powerful.

Line by Line Meaning

I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...
I have intense feelings for you that I am constantly aware of, day and night

There are only whispers and shadows for me
I feel alone and isolated, with only vague hints of your presence

The way things are the way things are
I feel resigned to the current state of things, even though it makes me miss you

And with this I blow a kiss to disaster
I am risking heartbreak by loving you, but I do it anyway

Because I wish to perfect my heart...
I am trying to become a better person for you, to be worthy of your love

I gotta check my mind...
I must make sure that my thoughts and feelings are in line with yours

Am I in tune with you?
Do I understand you and your emotions well enough to be a good partner to you?

Do we connect within the realm of the gods?
Is our love spiritual and transcendent?

Electric word "life" that means forever
Life is a force that endures eternally

and that's a mighty long time when you've kissed
When you have experienced true love, eternity can seem impossibly long

Divine
Our love is holy and pure

So divine... as with you
You are divine to me, and our love is divine as well

The Christ within will come in the clouds
I believe that a higher power will guide us towards each other

Trusting "divinity is always with you"
I believe that you carry a divine spark within you, and that it will bring us together

Trusting "this is the here and now"
I have faith that the present moment is the right time for our love to blossom

Mercy's right... I gotta check my love
I need to be more forgiving and compassionate in our relationship

and I'm trying to do as such
I am actively working on improving myself and our relationship

I don't let the demons get me down
I refuse to be dragged down by negative thoughts and emotions

It's just that sometimes I miss you so much...
Despite everything, I cannot help but feel an intense longing for you

I can envision all things to life
I have a vivid imagination and can picture a beautiful future for us

I can understand realistic ways
I am grounded in reality and understand that our love must be practical and sustainable

But I invent the next phase in forever
I am always looking for ways to strengthen and deepen our relationship

I like you, rewrite the next page
I am excited to explore new possibilities with you and shape our shared future together

It's so pristine... It's so untouched
Our love is pure and innocent, untainted by the world's troubles

I'm an immaculate sign of devotion
I show my love for you in every way I can, always striving to be the best partner I can be

Still unseen... I'm thinking so what
Even if the world cannot see the depth and power of our love, I do not care

Bless me cursed with colorful emotions
I am blessed to feel such intense and varied emotions, even if they can be painful at times

God said "I guess you don't know I'm you
I believe that we are all made in the image of a higher power, and that this power is within us

because you know the entire 360"
We possess a complete and nuanced understanding of our own selves and each other

A Christ, that's me
I identify with the teachings of Christianity and strive to embody its virtues

the Christ, that's you
I see the divine spark of God within you and admire your goodness and virtue

Regardless... constantly within me
Even if we are physically apart or facing challenges, my love for you remains strong and unwavering

I'm not so responsible for this
I acknowledge that love is a force greater than myself or my control

I'm just a man in love with so much
I am humbled by my love for you, and overwhelmed by its power

I know love... you'll always be with me
I understand the nature of true love, and believe that you will always be in my heart

Sometimes I miss you
Occasionally, I feel a strong sense of loss and longing for you

I can tell you how I feel about you night and day...
I have intense feelings for you that I am constantly aware of, day and night

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, Downtown Music Publishing
Written by: ATTRELL STEPHEN JR. CORDES, ALBERT JOSEPH BROWN III, KYLE ALBERT WEST

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