Here is what I got. As I said the last time I transcribed some lyrics, the best technique is to listen to snippets over and over again until you get it. Using headphones on the max volume is necessary, though not necessarily healthy! I think it does some justice to MJ that we are trying to figure out what he really says, as it seems to me that internet lyrics and even the printed booklets are just totally wrong in some cases. I think he at least deserves the respect of accurate lyrics, come on.
(In the news today, from the strange and weird fact file. Singer Michael Jackson sleeps in an oxygen chamber. The singer says that the hyperbaric chamber has the benefits of reversing the aging process.)
(From the news desk, singer Michael Jackson has a shrine to Elizabeth Taylor in his Encino home. We'll have that and more, after this. Thank you.)
(We've got more ahead. Singer Michael Jackson has made an offer of two million dollars for the skeletal remains of the Elephant Man. Join us next for the news.)
(This just in. Singer Michael Jackson has a shrine to Elizabeth Taylor in his Encino home.)
(Michael Jackson's in the news again. This time, an incredible revelation.)
(Michael Jackson/in the news today/Michael/Elizabeth Taylor will take Vincent/going to play Michael Jackson/dined by candlelight/at our next/have a legion/home of)
Hoo (16x)
Ah, spread your lie to break the one you hate
Shaken up, their life you confiscate
Assassinate and mute them
Well
It's the hounding media in hysteria
With the news for you to run to break
Judge and kill
Expose the CIA
You be tellin' the press to spot what's
The black mystery in all human history
It's slander
You say it's not a sword
But with your pen you torture men
You crucify the Lord
And you don't have to read it (read it)
And you don't have to eat it (eat it, oh)
To buy it is to feed it (feed it)
Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual (Yeah)
Though everybody wants to read all about it
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual
Actual
They say he's homosexual
In the hood, frame him if you could
Shoot to kill, they'll blame him if you will
If he dies, sympathize
As though love's first right is to blame the self-righteousness
In the black, they stab me in the back
In the face, to lie and shame the race
Heroin and Marilyn is the headline story of all your glory day
It's slander
With the words you use
You're a parasite in black and white
Do anything for news
And you don't go out and buy it (buy it)
And they won't glorify it ('fied it, oh)
To read it, sanctified it ('fy it)
Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves (baby)
Just because you read it in a magazine (baby)
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual (yeah, oh)
Everybody wants to lead all about it
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual
See, but everybody wants to believe all about it (oh, release me)
Just because you read it in a magazine (somebody release me)
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual (believe it, baby, see)
But everybody wants to believe all about it (baby, believe me, baby)
Just because you read it in a magazine (believe, baby)
Or see it on a TV screen (believe it, baby)
Don't make it factual
Actual
She's blonde and she's bisexual
(Just sixty seconds and new Michael Jackson story/Now the revelation/He's new wave, just calls him "Biggie"/Jackson said, I was sorry/New story ahead/What is it/Reporting, from Puerto Rico)
Everybody got someone to think about
Don't everybody got some food to throw
Everybody got some vicious talk
Don't everybody got some news today
Ah, bah, bah, bah bah
Everybody talk about the end of their idol
We've got those who accept it from them
Can't stop anybody from it-then-who's-to-blame but them
(Got a story in Encino/Now a story from the wackier side of the news. Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles can be rented./The centerpiece of the property/thirty million dollars/Michael Jackson's private ranch in Santa Barbara/Sunday, February 19 and 20th/in a wedding date in a restaurant in Gary to cry/the many are Jackson's longtime friend Donald Trump/incriminating them in beating and torturing)
Scandal
With the words you use
You're a parasite in black and white
Do anything for news
And you don't go out and buy it (buy it)
And they won't glorify it ('fy it)
To read it sanctified it ('fies it)
Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves
Slander
You say it's not a sin
But with your pen you torture men
But why do we keep foolin' ourselves (baby)
Just because you read it in a magazine (believe it baby)
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual (baby)
Though everybody wants to read all about it (yeah, oh)
Just because you read it in a magazine
Or see it on the TV screen
Don't make it factual (so you better believe)
But everybody wants to read all about it (oh, yeah, baby)
Just because you read it in a magazine (baby)
Or see it on the TV screen (believe it baby)
Don't make it factual (see, Sunday Times got a friend of mine)
Just because you read it in a magazine (baby, 'mebody release me)
Or see it on the TV screen (believe baby)
Don't make it factual (better believe, yeah yeah)
Just because you read it in a magazine (baby, yeah yeah)
Or see it on the TV screen (baby, yeah yeah)
Don't make it factual (believe it baby)
Actual (oh oh)
You're so damn disrespectable