| The song contains a quotation from the track [[Sexuality]], released 20 years earlier - "Reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, stand up! Organize!"<br> | | The song contains a quotation from the track [[Sexuality]], released 20 years earlier - "Reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, stand up! Organize!"<br> |
| The track opens with narrative in a distorted low voice by [[Prince]] that continues through many of the album's tracks. It introduces the story of the "Rainbow Children", who "go about the work of building a new nation" with "accurate understanding of God and his laws". "The Wise One" and his woman are tempted by "The Resistor" "as prophesied". The woman succumbed, and was banished from the land along with five others, who became "The Banished Ones" (this was long thought to be as being written about [[Prince]]'s separation from his first wife [[Mayte]], which she confirmed in her 2017 biography "The Beautiful Ones"). The Wise One trusted in God to bring him another woman (read: [[Prince]]'s soon-to-be second wife, [[Manuela Testolini]]). Although the term "Rainbow Children" is used during the narrative and some lyrics throughout the album, these uses are not considered a reference to this particular song, but instead to the same idea referred to in the lyric of this song - a group of people who have obtained some kind of spiritual enlightenment, "flying on the wings of the New Translation" (likely referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Translation_of_the_Holy_Scriptures New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures] used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses], the religious group [[Prince]] belonged to at the time of recording). | | The track opens with narrative in a distorted low voice by [[Prince]] that continues through many of the album's tracks. It introduces the story of the "Rainbow Children", who "go about the work of building a new nation" with "accurate understanding of God and his laws". "The Wise One" and his woman are tempted by "The Resistor" "as prophesied". The woman succumbed, and was banished from the land along with five others, who became "The Banished Ones" (this was long thought to be as being written about [[Prince]]'s separation from his first wife [[Mayte]], which she confirmed in her 2017 biography "The Most Beautiful"). The Wise One trusted in God to bring him another woman (read: [[Prince]]'s soon-to-be second wife, [[Manuela Testolini]]). Although the term "Rainbow Children" is used during the narrative and some lyrics throughout the album, these uses are not considered a reference to this particular song, but instead to the same idea referred to in the lyric of this song - a group of people who have obtained some kind of spiritual enlightenment, "flying on the wings of the New Translation" (likely referring to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Translation_of_the_Holy_Scriptures New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures] used by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses], the religious group [[Prince]] belonged to at the time of recording). |