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Michael - The Lyrics

Do someone have the Lyris to Behind the Mask? - The real lyrics, not what is written in the booklet - it is all wrong.
 
Korgnex said:
MICHAEL JACKSON - "Stay"



lead vocals & ad-libs: Michael Jackson
chorus and background vocals: James Porte
Sometimes they're also singing together but I have not marked this.
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is it a personnal analysis or did you find this somewhere ?
 
Behind The Mask
(Written by Michael Jackson, Chris Mosdell, Ryuichi Sakamoto)


All along, had to talk about it
Like a two-edged sword, he touched you and it stab
All along, I knew you were a phony girl (Hee Hee)
Sit behind the mask, and you control your world

Sit around and I watch your face
I try to find the truth, but that's your hiding place
You say you love me, but it's hard to see
'Cause when he's in your arms, you're throwing rocks at me

Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
Is it me? (Heehe Hehe)
Well, I don't know
Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
All i want (Heehe Hehe)
If ?he? can
You know me (Hoo)

There is nothing in your eyes (There is nothing in your eyes)
That’s the way you cry, girl (That’s the way you cry, girl) [cry, girl]
All is grand, all is bright (All is grand, all is bright)
You're just studying my mind (HeHeHe)

I walk around, I'm suffering in my doom
When I come to you, you're sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place (Hee Hee Hee)
So take off the mask, so I can see your face

Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
Is it me? (Heehe Hehe)
Well, I don't know
Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
All i want (Heehe Hehe)
If ?he? can
I know you (Hoo)

Heaven must be wearing (Heaven must be wearing)
Your smile is scary (you got me scared, girl)
Insincere, empty tears (???)
Where's your soul? Where did it go? (you got me scared, girl)

Heaven must be wearing (Heaven must be wearing)
Your smile is scary (You know ???, babe)
Insincere, empty tears (??? NaNaNa)
Where's your soul? Where did it go? (HeHeHe)

(Heehe Hehe)
(How you doin'?)
(Heehe Hehe)
(How you doin'?)
(Heehe Hehe) (Hee Hee)
(Heehe Hehe) (Hee Hee)
(Aow!)

I walk around, I'm suffering in my doom
When I come to you, you're sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place (Hee Hee Hee)
So take off the mask, so I can see your face

Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
Is it me? (HeeHe Hee)
Well, I don't know
Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
All i want (Heehe Hehe)
If ?he? can
I know you

Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
Is it me? (HeeHe Hee)
Well, I don't know
Who do you love? (Heehe Hehe)
All i want (Heehe Hehe)
If ?he? can
I don't know

I don't wanna talk about it [let's talk about it] (Heehe Hehe)
I don't wanna talk about it [let's talk about it] (Heehe Hehe)
I don't wanna talk about it [let's talk about it]

(Heehe Hehe)
[I love you YeYeah] (Heehe Hehe) [?I want?]
[I love you ???] (Heehe Hehe) [?your Love?]

(Heehe Hehe) [?I want?]
(Heehe Hehe) [?your Love?]
Yeah Ye-Yeah Ye-Yeah Ye-Yeah Yeah Ye-Yeaaaah)
(Heehe Hehe)


creator: mjchris

STATUS: incomplete<!-- / message -->

Do we have a complete version ??
 
BUMPER SNIPPET said:
I too hear weary and not wearing.
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Don't you hear how it ends on a soft "n" after he's holding the "i" for a while?

He's not pronouncing the "g" though, so it's actually wearin' but I think that's pretty much clear.


It's also "wearing" in the official lyrics and as far as I know they were created from Michael's hand-written sheets.
 
Korgnex said:
Explanation of the line "Heaven must be wearing" in BEHIND THE MASK
by Korgnex


"Heaven must be wearing" is a fantastic and intended wordplay that combines "(to) wear a mask" with "wearing" (=exhausting!) and alludes to the title of the song, BEHIND THE MASK.

The expression by the singing persona (the lyrical persona) correlates to the woman behind the mask who is addressed by this.
"Heaven" means the wealthiness and fame that surrounds that woman. She's living in her world of glitz where everything is appealing but it's still just an illusory world nonetheless. She only pretends to be someone but the singing persona (the lyrical persona) wants to know who she really is, what person she is behind the mask.

The singing persona (the lyrical persona) wants to say this:
It has to be pretty exhausting (="wearing") to always live like in heaven - to always have everything, to always get everything when everything is perfect and you yourself also have to pretend to be perfect by wearing a mask to fit in this sweetest place (="Heaven") and to preserve the pretense.
That's the price you have to pay for it so to say.

By wearing a mask you feign something to others, you present them a certain image, you play a roll, you do what others are expecting from you (because it's suitable to your role).
This pretense, the mask, the constant "to act as if", the fulfilling of expectations that others are demanding from you, doesn't allow you to be recognized as the real person that is behind the mask.

And because the singing persona (the lyrical persona) wants to identify her, he's asking her to drop all pretense because after all it must be stressful to always wear that mask to simulate perfection.
--> "Heaven must be wearing"



Michael Jackson said of himself during the Grammy Awards in 1993:


So it's even auto-biographical to a certain extent.
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thanks alot :clap:
 
Stay
(2007, written by )

Never have I ever been so sure (so sure) (Hoh no, now)
Never thought I'd see you walk in that door (that door) (Hoh nay-na)
I can make you feel [try to cure the queen] no remedy [no compromise]
Would you rather be right here with me
I want you right here next to me

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow]
Do you wanna walk away [if you let it go]
Girl, I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind (say goodbye)

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow]
Do you really wanna go [We can let it go]
So I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye (Haah)
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind

She never thought she'd be here away in no need (Hoh no, now)
I never thought I'd be here back in my fears [We can take it slow] (HoHoHoo)
When you're in need, your fantasy [all here with me]
[So would you rather be, right here with me] (right here with me)

Girl, get in to me

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow] (HoHoHoo)
Do you wanna walk away [if you let it go]
Girl, I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye (Don't you walk away)
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change mind (say goodbye)

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow] (We take it slow)
Do you really wanna go [We can let it go] (did you say goodbye)
So I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind

Anything, oh anything, to chase the rain, goodbye [to chase the rain, goodbye]
When you're left with all your dreams
I couldn't say good night [I couldn't say good night] (I want love you)
[She was contagious] She was contagious
She was my baby [She was my baby]

Te quiero [Te quiero mi amor]
I love you
Say goodbye [Say goodbye]
Say goodbye

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow] (Haaah)
Do you wanna walk away [if you let it go]
Girl, I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye (Don't walk away)
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind (No go away)

Do you really wanna stay [We can take it slow] (Stay by my side)
Do you really wanna go [We can let it go] (Stay by my side)
So I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind

(Never let you go)
Do you wanna walk away (Never let you go)
(Never let you go)
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind (Never let you go)

Do you really wanna stay (Huuh)
Do you wanna, wanna go (Hooh)
So I'm writing you this letter just to say goodbye
I'll be standing in the rain, cause you change your mind

(Haaah)

(No go away)
(Stay by my side)
(Stay by my side)


[] = Background

Creator: mjchris (re-edit of korgnex version)

STATUS: complete

LAST UPDATE: 18.01.2011
 
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i have finished "hollywood tonight" and "breaking news" today.
and update a few things on other lyrics.
and i nearly finished "another day"
there is only one small thing missing. maybe someone know what it could be?...



My life has taken me beyond the planets and the stars
And you're the only one that could take me this far
I'll be forever searching for your Love

(Huuh Hoo)

I walked away but I was wrong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the one that make me strong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the fire that keeps me warm
[I can't make it another day]
How did I get through this storm?
[I can't live another day without your Love]

(Come on now)
(Hoo-Hoo)

At night [at night], I pray before I sleep in hope of finding you [finding you]
I've opened up my heart I want you to come through
I'm close my eyes I'm searching for your Love

(Huuh Hoo)

I walked away but I was wrong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the one that make me strong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the fire that keeps me warm
[I can't make it another day]
How did I get through this storm?
[I can't live another day without your Love]

(Hoo)

I walked away but I was wrong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the one that make me strong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the fire that keeps me warm
[I can't make it another day]
How did I get through this storm?
[I can't live another day without your Love]

(Hoo-Hoo)
(G'on babe)
(Hoo-Hoo)
(Hoo)
(You can't just, just do it)
(Come on now)
(Hoo-Hoo-Hoo)

I walked away but I was wrong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the one that make me strong
[I can't make it another day]
You're the fire that keeps me warm
[I can't make it another day]
How did I get through this storm?
[I can't live another day without your Love]

(its just too much for me)

I walked away but I was wrong (its just too much for me)
[I can't make it another day] (its too much for me)
You're the one that make me strong (its just too much for me)
[I can't make it another day] (i can't make it baby)
You're the fire that keeps me warm (i can't make it baby)
[I can't make it another day] (you just love me)
You're the fire ??? (it's just too much for me)
[I can't live another day without your Love]

(Hoo-Hoo)

I walked away but I was wrong (Yeeah)
[I can't make it another day] (I say) (Yeeah)
You're the one that keeps me strong
[I can't make it another day]
 
I like STTR just as much BTM.

STTR it's about strong independent family women. :D
I can imagine what cool and funny video can be made. with dancing women all the time, while doing their daily work.
Eventrough "dance" is an antonym and stands for something different in the song.
 
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ok, now i hear "into". but after "into" there is nothing else. the next is (it's just too much for me). that is what i hear now.

You're fire into (it's just too much for me)

and you can sing him one word. but thats seperate

what do you think?




You're the fire that keeps me warm

is

You're the fire that keep me warm
 
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^ Slow it down then. It's quite good hearable. "this" is spoken very soft and quickly after "into".

Go and listen to this section (featured several times in the chorus):
How did I get through this storm?
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And then compare again. I'm sure you'll hear it.
 
i finished "another day". and made some small corrections on unfinished lyrics. but still not finished. ^^ only a few are missing.
 
mjchris said:
Much too soon
(1981, written by Michael Jackson)


She was there just sitting at the table
Thinking now that things won't be the same
"And would you like to go with me?"
And she answered "No" to me
But I guess I learned my lesson much too soon

I never thought she'd leave me here forever
But who knows just what the future brings
"And would you like to go with me?"
And she answered "No" to me
But I guess I learned my lesson much too soon

Take away this neverending sorrow
Take this lonely feeling from my soul
If only I knew what things bring tomorrow
She'd be sitting here beside me
And my heart would fill with gold

I hope to make a change now for the better
Never letting fate control my soul
And I am hoping that my prayers will see
The day that you'll come back to me
But I guess I learned my lesson much too soon (Uh-Uh)

Yes, I guess I learned my lesson much too soon



creator: mjchris

STATUS: complete
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Update in RED
 
Just found out that italian Radio Deejay on their website have complete lyrics (also spoken bridges of Monster and Hollywood Tonight) of the songs:


http://www.deejay.it/dj/lyrics/artist/michael-jackson/michael/testo-monster-feat-50-cent/738317

Monster

You can look at them coming out the walls
You can look at them climbing out the bushes
You can find them when the letter’s bout to fall
He’ll be waiting with his camera right on focus

Everywhere you seem to turn there’s a monster
When you look up in the air there’s a monster
Paparazzi got you scared like a monster, monster, monster

(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood it’s got you jumping like you should
(Too bad)
It’s got you bouncing off the wall
It’s got you drunk enough to fall
(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood just look in the mirror
And tell me you like
Don’t you, don’t you like it

Monster
He’s a monster
He’s an animal

Monster (yea-eah)
He’s a monster
He’s an animal

He’s coming at ya
Coming at ya rather too fast
Mama say mama got you in a zig zag
And you’re running
And you’re running just to escape it
But they are gunning for the money
So they fake it

Everywhere you seem to turn there’s a monster
When you look up in the air there’s a monster
When you see them in the street
there’s a monster, monster, monster

(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood it’s got you jumping like you should
It’s got you bouncing off the wall
It’s got you drunk enough to fall
(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood just look in the mirror
And tell me you like what you see

Monster
(he’s like an animal)
He’s a monster
(just like an animal)
He’s an animal
(and he’s moving in the air)
Monster
He’s a monster
He’s an animal
(everybody wanna be a star)

Why are they never satisfied with all you give, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeah
You give them your all
They’re watching you fall
And they eat your soul like a vegetable

[50 Cent]
Catch me in a bad mood, flippin’ you’ll take a whippin’
animal, hannibal, cannibal addition
tears appear, yeah, blurring your vision
fear in the air, screaming, your blood drippin’
shiver a second, now, now, now, now what is it
funeral’s, cemetaries, don’t worry it’s time to visit
broke bones, tombstones, how do you think I’m kidding
its home, sweet home, the land of the forbidden
all hell, run tell, the King has risen
2010 Thriller, there’s nothing iller, it’s killer
there vision, the missin’ the pack, this is that,
this the bomb, ring the alarm
MJ number 1, it’s goes on and on
its goes on and on
we get to crippin’, its running in the early morn’
keep on dreaming there’s nowhere to run
you can drive but you done
I can feel it in the air, here the monster come.

(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood it’s got you jumping like you should
It’s got you bouncing off the wall
It’s got you drunk enough to fall
(Too bad)
Ho-o-Hollywood just making it clearer
And tell me you like
Don’t you, don’t you like it

Monster
(say you wanna be a star)
He’s a monster
(say you wanna go far)
He’s an animal
(Why do you keep stalking me)
Monster
(what you do to me)
He’s a monster
(why did you take it, why did you fake it)
He’s an animal
(ye-e-ah why are you haunting me)
Monster
(why are you stalking me)
He’s a monster
(why are you haunting me)
He’s an animal
(why did you do it, why did you, why are you stalking me)

Monster
(why are you haunting me)
He’s a monster
(why are you haunting me)
He’s an animal
(Why did you, why did you)

He’s dragging you down like a monster
he’s keeping you down like a monster

He’s dragging you down like a monster
He’s keeping you down like a monster



http://www.deejay.it/dj/lyrics/artist/michael-jackson/michael/testo-hollywood-tonight/738314

Hollywood Tonight

Lipstick in hand
Tahitian tan
In her painted on jeans

She dreams of fame
She changed her name
To one that fits the movie screen
She's headed for the big time, that means

She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
It's true, that you, may never ever have that chance again (that chance again babe)

West bound Greyhound
To tinsel town
Just to pursue her movie star dreams
She's giving hot tricks to men
Just to get in
When she was taught that that's not clean
She's headed for the big time, that means

She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
It's true, that you, may never ever have that chance again (that chance again babe)

[Spoken words:]
She gave up her life, to follow her dreams
Left behind everything, for the movie scene
Nothing more she could want, she was determined to follow her plan
She wanted Hollywood, she wanted it bad
Now that she got her dream, she became a star
It all looked so good, but only good from afar
Imprisoned in every paparazzi's camera, every guy wished they could
Now it's back to reality, for Ms. Hollywood

Lipstick in hand
Tahitian tan
in her painted on jeans

She dreams of fame
She changed her name
To one that fits the movie screen
She's headed for the big time, that means

She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
She's going Hollywood
She's going Hollywood tonight
It's true, that you, may never ever have that chance again (that chance again babe)

(You know it baby)
West bound Greyhound
To tinsel town
Just to pursue her movie star dreams

West bound Greyhound
To tinsel town
Just to pursue her movie star dreams

(You know it baby)
West bound Greyhound
To tinsel town
Just to pursue her movie star dreams

West bound Greyhound
To tinsel town
Just to pursue her movie star dreams

(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )
(She's Hollywood )


http://www.deejay.it/dj/lyrics/artist/michael-jackson/michael/testo-behind-the-mask/738320

Behind The Mask

All along, had to talk about it
Like a two-edged sword, he touched you and it stabs me
All along, I knew you were a phony girl
Sit behind the mask
And you control your world

I sit around and I watch your face
I try to find the truth, but that's your hiding place
You say you love me, but it's hard to see
'Cause when he's in your arms, you're throwing rocks at me

Who do you love ?
Is it me ? Well ?
I don't know
Who do you love ?
You know me

(There is nothing in your eyes) There is nothing in your eyes
(But that’s the way you cry) But that’s the way you cry, girl (cry, girl)
(All is grand, all is bright) All is grand, all is bright
(You're just studying my mind)

I walk around, I'm suffering in my doom
And when I come to you, you're sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place
So take off the mask, so I can see your face

Who do you love ?
Is it me ? Well ?
I don't know
Who do you love ?
I know you

(Heaven must be wearing) Heaven must be wearing
(Your smile is scary) You got me scared, girl
(Insincere, empty tears)
(Where's your soul? Where'd it go?) You got me scared, girl

(Heaven must be wearing) Heaven must be wearing
(Your smile is scary)
(Insincere, empty tears)
(Where's your soul? Where did it go?)

I walk around, I'm suffering in my doom
And when I come to you, you're sitting in your room
You sit around in the strangest place
So take off the mask, so I can see your face

Who do you love?
Is it me ? Well ?
I don't know
Who do you love ?
I know you

Who do you love?
Is it me ? Well ?
I don't know
Who do you love ?
I don't know

I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)
I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)
I don't wanna talk about it (let's talk about it)
 
In the first post, there's written that Hollywood Tonight was written in 1981. I thought it was written sometime during the Invincible Era. Was it really written in 1981?
 
what i remeber is that people said it was written in 1981.
 
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