"Count the Days" is a song by The New Power Generation, released as the final single from their 1995 album

Album

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, Exodus. The bluesy ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

 is accompanied by little more instrumentation than the guitar. The lyrics describe negative situations, while Prince

Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

 "counts the days" until life is better.

The CD single

CD single

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 was released in Europe with the harsher profanity removed. Its B-side was album track "New Power Soul", a mostly instrumental number with the title repeated throughout. "New Power Soul" is a band-oriented, laid-back funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 jam, allowing solos for the horn section, drums and organ. Background noise was added to sound as if the song was recorded with an audience. The title of this song re-appeared (as two words) as the title of the 1998 New Power Generation album, Newpower Soul

Newpower Soul

Newpower Soul is a 1998 album by The New Power Generation, but is de facto a Prince album . The album was announced as a "Prince"-album in a press release issued by his publicist, but mere days later his official website at the time claimed those were mere rumors.The album title has a long history...

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