Song of the Day: Thriller (Michael Jackson)

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Album: Michael Jackson's This Is It

Genre: Pop

Released: 1982

I know you're doing the "Thriller" dance right now. Don't lie. And don't pretend you're not doing it because I know the second you saw this was the "Song of the Day" you started doing the dance. 

Lyrics: 

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking 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 at 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

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

But all the while you hear a creature creepin' up behind

You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller at night

There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes

You know it's thriller, 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 escapin' the jaws of the alien this time

(They're open wide)

This is the end of your life

They're out to get you; there's demons closing in on every side

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 it's a thriller, thriller night

'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul

Would ever dare try

This is thriller, thriller night

So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller chiller

Thriller here tonight

That it's a thriller, thriller night

'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul

Could ever dare try

This is thriller, thriller night

Girl so let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller

I'm gonna thrill ya tonight

Darkness falls across the land

The midnight hour is close at hand

Creatures crawl in search of blood

To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood

And whosoever shall be found

Without the soul for getting down

Must stand and face the hounds of hell

And rot inside a corpse's shell

The foulest stench is in the air

The funk of forty thousand years

And grizzly ghouls from every tomb

Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive

Your body starts to shiver

For no mere mortal can resist

The evil of the thriller