"Thriller" lyrics

"Thriller"

[Michael Jackson:]
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurkin' in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes,
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
Yeah
Ooh

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl
But all the while you hear a creature creepin' up behind
You're outta time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with the forty eyes, girl
Thriller, ooh, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide)
This is the end of your life, ooh

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side (ooh)
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen,
I'll make you see

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul could ever dare try
Thriller, ooh, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, chiller
Thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghoul could ever dare try
Thriller, ooh, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller (ow)

I'm gonna thrill you tonight

[Vincent Price:]
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'all's neighborhood
(I'm gonna thrill you tonight)
And whomsoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell

[Michael Jackson:]
I'm gonna thrill you tonight...

Thriller, ooh, babe (Thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller night)
Thriller, oh, darling (Oh, baby)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller)
Ooh, babe (Thriller night)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight (Thriller)
Oh, darling (Oh, baby)
Thriller night, babe (Thriller night, babe)
Ooh

[Vincent Price:]
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
(Thriller night, thriller)
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
(I'm gonna thrill you tonight)
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

[Into maniacal laugh, in deep echo]


Writer(s): Rodney Lynn Temperton
This track was written by Rod Temperton, the main songwriter in his band Heatwave. He also wrote two songs, "Rock With You" and "Off The Wall", for Michael Jackson's album "Off The Wall" (1979).
The music video for this song was directed by John Landis, who worked on the film "An American Werewolf In London" (1981).
The video for "Thriller" is prominent for its choreography, costumes and dialogues and it also introduced the concept of the long-form music video.
Vincent Price, an actor who did the narration at the end of this song (including the evil laugh), was also featured as the narrator in 1975 Alice Cooper's movie based on the stage show for his "Welcome To My Nightmare" tour.
The music video for "Thriller" won for Best Performance Video, Best Choreography, and Viewers Choice at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.
In 1999 Michael Jackson said of making the music video in an interview for MTV's 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made, "It was a delicate thing to work on because I remember my original approach was, 'How do you make zombies and monsters dance without it being comical?' ...So I got in a room with (choreographer) Michael Peters, and he and I together kind of imagined how these zombies move by making faces in the mirror."
The Library of Congress added the video for "Thriller" to its National Film Registry in 2009 (the first music video there) because it was considered the most-famous music video of all time.
This song is tightly associated with the holiday of Halloween and usually re-enters the Hot 100 chart every year during the holiday season.
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