🎵 Batdance // by Prince

31 ContributorsBatdance Lyrics When Warner Bros Films was working on the 1989 film Batman and wanted a ‘superstar artist’ do to the music, the realization that the Joker’s clothing and cars were purple led them to asking Prince to provide… Read More  [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, bats" "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." [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