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Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

June 30th, 2009

…with deep gratitude to the King of Pop, and a grain of salt from the reader…

We’ve got more problems
Than we’ll ever need
You got gang violence
And bloodshed on the street
You got homeless people
With no food to eat
With no clothes on their back
And no shoes for their feet

We’ve got drug addiction
In the minds of the weak
We’ve got so much corruption
Police brutality
We’ve got streetwalkers
Walkin’ into darkness
Tell me
What are we doing
To try to stop this

I said you wanna be startin’ somethin’
You got to be startin’ somethin’

It’s too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You’re stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)

You love to pretend that you’re good
When you’re always up to no good

Ain’t the pictures enough, why do you go through so much
To get the story you need, so you can bury me
You’ve got the people confused, you tell the stories you choose
You try to get me to lose the man I really am

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown
And this person or thing is soon to be met

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

Honey, come set me free
Don’t you know now is the perfect time

No time for castles in space
Or livin’ in make believe

If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change

Just take it slow
‘Cause we got so far to go

So keep the faith
Don’t let nobody turn you ’round
You gotta know when
It’s good to go
To get your dreams
Up off the ground
Keep the faith, baby, yea
Because it’s just
A matter of time
Before your confidence
Will win out
Believe in yourself
No matter what it’s gon’ take
You can be a winner
But you got to keep the faith
…Gon’ keep it brother
You got it

Nothing good ever comes easy
All good things come in due time
Yes it does
You gotta have something to believe in
I’m telling you to open mind

Don’t stop til you get enough
Let that rhythm get into you
Don’t try to fight it
There ain’t nothin’ that you can do

Nation to nation
All the world
Must come together
Face the problems
That we see
Then maybe somehow we can work it out

There’ll be no more mountains for us to climb
We can touch the sky and light the darkest day

If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that it’s human nature

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All lyrics from All Michael Jackson Lyrics. Listed here in the order quoted above:

“Man In The Mirror” Featuring Siedah Garret, The Winans and The Andrae Crouch Choir Written and Composed by Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard

“Why You wanna Trip On Me” Written and Composed by Teddy Riley and Bernard Bell

“Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” Written and Composed by Michael Jackson

“Privacy” Written and composed by Michael Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels, Bernard Bell

“Threatened” Written and composed by Michael Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels, Robert Smith. (Contains audio snippets of Rod Serling)

“Tabloid Junkie” Written and composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III, and Terry Lewis
“P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)” Written and Composed by James Ingram and Quincy Jones