Prince

Released: June 8, 1989

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Verse 1]
("Oh, I got a live one here!")
Get the funk up!
Batman
Get the funk up!
Batman
Get the funk up!
("Go, go, go with a smile!")
Batdance
Do it
Keep busting

[Verse 2]
I've seen the future and it will be
Batman, Batman
I've seen the future and it will be
Batman (house, do it, house)
"And where, and where is the Batman?"
Do it, do it
Let's do it, let's do it
Do it, do it
Do it, do it

[Breakdown]
"Stop the press"
"Stop the press, who is that?"
"Vicki Vale, Vicki Vale"
"I like"
Batman
Batman
Batman
"Oh - that's nice"
"Hi, Bruce Wayne"
"I've tried to avoid all this, but I can't"
"I just got to know... are we going to try to love each other?"
"Stop the press - who is that?"
"Vicki Vale"
"She is great, isn't she?"

[Verse 3]
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
I wanna bust that body
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
I wanna bust that body right
"I'd like to"
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
"But he's out there right now"
I wanna bust that body
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah tonight

[Bridge 2]
"Well, Miss Vale"
"Ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?"
"I always ask that of all my prey."
"I just like the sound of it."
(screams)

[Verse 4]
I've got to go to work
Batman
I've got to go to work
Batman
If a man is considered guilty
Work!
For what goes on in his mind
Work!
Then gimme the electric chair
Work!
For all my future crimes-OH
Work!
Electric chair

[Bridge 2]
Hey Ducky, let me stick the 7-inch
In the computer
HA, HA, HA
Hey, we got the power
Oh, we got the soul
Hey, we got to sho'nuff get off
To make the devil go, go
"This town needs an enema!"

[Verse 5]
"I'm going to kill you"
Power
"I'm not going kill you"
Soul
"I'm going to kill you"
Power
"I'm not going to kill you"
Soul
Let's do it
"I'm Batman"
Batman
Don't stop dancing
"I'm Batman"
Batman
Don't stop dancing
Do it, do it, do it, do it

[Versee 6]
Batman
Batman
Batman
Don't stop, don't stop
Let's do it
Don't stop dancing
Let's do it, Batman
Let's do it, Batman
Don't stop dancing
Don't stop dancing
No, damn it! Turn the music back up!
You son of a bitch!

[Outro]
Have you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?
Who's going to stop 200 balloons?
Nobody!
Batman
Stop!

An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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