Prince

Released: March 24, 2009

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
I like it when you dance for me, hallelujah
Oh funky congregation
Let us bow our heads in prayer
(You)
And thank the Almighty for you, baby
(Thank you, thank you)
Glory, glory, hallelujah
I like it, I like it
I like it when you dance for me

[Verse 1]
I like it when you dance 'cause it gets me hot
I like it when you shake everything you got
I like it when you dance 'cause it's so sexy
I like it when you dance for me
I like it when you think I'm all alone
You're the voice I hear from the telephone
Telling me all your deepest fantasies

[Chorus]
I like it when you dance for me, hallelujah
I like it when you dance for me
I like it when you dance for me

[Verse 2]
I like it when I hear a knock on my door
You are standing there in your Christian Dior
Dark sunglasses in the pale moonlight
I like it when the scene is right (Oh oh)
You can take your wrap and lay it on the chair
If anybody finds it, I don't care
What we do together makes history

[Chorus]
I like it when you dance for me, hallelujah (Oh oh)
I like it when you dance for me
I like it when you dance for me

Dance, dance, dance. dance for me
Dance, dance
I like it when you dance for me

[Verse 3]
Your flamenco eyes are all like jazz
With every other sip of what's in your glass
The sexier you get
The more you into my stash
I like it when you dance for me
Hallelujah

I like it when you
Dance for me
I like it when you dance for me

[Bridge]
You don’t need directions, and you don’t need cash!
From your Jimmy Choo’s to your ultra lash!
Least that I can do, baby, is get half
It’s worth it when you dance for me!
Hallelujah

Now dance
Dance for me
Now dance
Dance for me

[Verse 4]
I like it when you dance 'cause it gets me hot
I like it when you shake everything you got
I like it when you dance 'cause it's so sexy
I like it when you dance for me
(Say it again)
I like it when you dance 'cause it gets me hot
I like it when you shake everything you got
I like it when you dance 'cause it's so sexy
I like it when you dance for me
Hallelujah

Oh lady, shake it now
Make me wanna (I like it when you dance for me)
Make me wanna pick up maracas and just shake
I like it when you dance for me
I like it when you dance for me

[Outro]
Dance
Dance
I like it when you dance for me
I like it when you dance for me

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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