Prince

Released: June 8, 1989

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

[Intro]
Who gonna stop 200 balloons?
Nobody
Let's do it

[Verse 1]
Twenty-five policemen all in a row
Can't stop the party people, go go go
If you can't beat 'em join 'em, baby say so
It's party time everybody come on lets go

[Refrain]
Fly with me
200 balloons
(Let's do it)

[Verse 2]
Blowing down the city colder than ice
I think you better love me 'cause I'm really kind of nice
If you do me once, girl, you have to do me twice
Wave your hand if you wanna party tonight

[Refrain]
Come on everybody
200 balloons

[Chorus]
Everybody sing it
Fly with me (Let's do it)
Come on baby fly with me (Let's do it)
Fly with me (Let's do it)
Come on baby fly with me

[Refrain]
I'll buy you love if I got
200 balloons
(Let's do it)

[Verse 3]
Tell me that you love me and I'll buy you a fancy car
I made you a couple of times and so you made me a star
So take me for what I'm worth, love me for what I are
(Do, do) The Partyman, I take you way far

[Refrain]
Come on, y'all
200 balloons

[Interlude]
Who's gonna stop 200 balloons?
Nobody
Let's do it
Let's do it
Let's do it
Let's do it

[Refrain]
It's party time y'all
200 balloons

[Interlude]
(Do it) Don't stop me now
(Do it {Poet}) My life has just begun
(Do it) Rave, unto the joy, y'all (Do it)
The only one don't try to stop me (Do it)
Fly with me (Do it)
(Do it) 200
(Do it) 200
(Do it)
Fly with me
Come on fly with me

[Refrain]
It's party time, y'all
200 balloons

[Outro]
(Let's do it)
200 balloons
(Let's do it)
(Fly with me)
200 balloons
Let's do it
Let's do itHey, its been good!
Fly, fly
Fly with me (200 balloons)
Come on baby fly with me
(Let's do it)
Fly with me
200 balloons
(Let's do it)
Who gonna stop 200 balloons?
Nobody
Let's do it
(Do it, Do it) Get your house in order
(Do it, Do it) Get your, Get your
(200 balloons)
Get your house in, Get your house in
Get your hou', get your, get get get get
(Fly)
(Oh yeah) Your house in order
Fly with me (200)
Let's do it
Get your house in order
200 balloons
Get your, Get your (Let's do it)
Turn your heads to the east, I'll be coming from the west
Ain't no stoppin' me baby 'cause I'm the best
(200)
Cry cry cry
I love it when you moan
This funk will cut so deep
Gonna touch your soul, oh
(200 balloons)
(Do it, do it, do it, do it)
My funk is multilayered (I just)
Don't stop me now (I just)
I got a fever pumpin'
Don't stop me now
I'll make love to you
(I just)
I got a warehouse full of protection, two times
Good lord
(200 balloons) I wanna be your (Rave) busy bee
I'll be your busy bee
Come on queen
(Rave, 200, 200, Rave, 200 balloons)
(Let's do, let's, let's do it)
(Rave, fly with me)
(Fly with me {200} {Rave} {200} Fly with me}) (200 {Let's do it} balloons)
Rave, unto the joy fantastic, Rave
(Let's do it)
Who gonna stop 200 balloons?
Nobody

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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