My Own Lyrics Challenge 1984 - Let's Go Crazy - Prince

The lyrics of the song “Let's Go Crazy” celebrate clean living and doing the best you can with your life. They also speak of the afterlife where everything will be easier when you get there.

Prince’s strong anti-drug, Christian ethics, and positivity messages shine through the words of the song.

My Own Lyrics Challenge is going through the years to spotlight cool songs and this post is for 1984. “Let's Go Crazy” opened both the album and film “Purple Rain” which catapulted Prince to superstardom immediately upon release.

The song rose to the top 10 on numerous international charts, and ended up number 21 for the year on the Billboard year-end listing.

The video for Let's Go Crazy by Prince is comprised of scenes from the movie. Most of the footage is of the opening number on stage. This concert footage is interspersed with other scenes from various parts of the film.

Let's Go Crazy Lyrics - Prince

[Spoken Intro]
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
To get through this thing called "life"
Electric word, life
It means forever and that's a mighty long time
But I'm here to tell you
There's something else
The afterworld
A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun, day or night
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, Dr. Everything'll-Be-Alright
Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby
'Cause in this life
Things are much harder than in the after world
In this life
You're on your own
And if de-elevator tries to bring you down
Go crazy (Punch a higher floor!)
Woo!

[Verse 1]
If you don't like
The world you're living in
Take a look around
At least you got friends
You see I called my old lady
For a friendly word
She picked up the phone
Dropped it on the floor
(Ah, ah) is all I heard

[Pre-Chorus]
Are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down?
Oh, no lets go!

[Chorus]
Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Let's look for the purple banana
Until they put us in the truck, let's go!

[Verse 2]
We're all excited
But we don't know why
Maybe it's cause
We're all gonna die
And when we do (when we do)
What's it all for (what's it all for)
You better live now
Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door

[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me, are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down?
Oh, no let's go!

[Chorus]
Let's go crazy
Let's get nuts
Look for the purple banana
Until they put us in the truck, let's go!

[Ad lib/Instrumental break]
C'mon baby
Let's get nuts!
Yeah
(Crazy)
Let's go crazy!

[Pre-Chorus]
Are we gonna let de-elevator bring us down?
Oh, no let's go!
Go (Go crazy)

[Bridge]
I said let's go crazy (go crazy)
Let's go (Let's go!)
Go (Let's go!)

[Verse 3]
Dr. Everything'll-Be-Alright
Will make everything go wrong
Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill
Hang tough children
He's coming
He's coming
Coming

[Guitar solo]

[Outro]
Take me away!

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