'This Is It' Lyrics Must Be Ungarbled

From the beginning I should admit that I've become a Michael Jackson fanatic since his death in 2009. I went back and re-learned the lyrics I'd memorized years ago.

Michael Jackson is no Mick Jagger as far as word slurring, but he comes close at times. Remember that part in the Whoopie Goldberg movie where Jim Belusshi was a spy and she worked at a bank. One night she stays up super late, in her funky pjs and big slippers, and listens to Mick Jagger on a tape over and over again, trying to write down the lyrics. She has problems understanding his musical enunciation. It was funny in the movie. Maybe you had to be there. But Michael Jackson does not enunciate well either.

The song currently in question is :This Is It" which doesn't have a recorded image of him singing to try to be able to read his lips.

I should go ahead and admit I'm a Baby Boomers. When we were kids, the way we got the lyrics was to listen to the song for as much as you could remember, pick the needle up off the record, and write like heck--hoping your companions had the consideration to work with you and not against you. My best friend in 1966 lived across the street from me, and we spent many hours at each others' houses. In my albums, I still have her and my writing of the lyrics to , like, Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Now I think people, kids, just go to the Internet and accept whatever has been throw out there.

So I found a "This Is It" video on You Tube, that includes the llyrics printed underneath the imagescreen. That person has four lines wrong. I have four different lines, but I'm not sure I'm right.

If you like this song enough to listen, more than once probably, to help figure out the lyrics, you'd be doing me a big favor.

Here's a link to the You Tube video with the lyrics on the page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxOAPn8skI

Here are the lyrics I hearThis Is It lyrics



Ready?
1,2,3,4
This is it, Here I stand
I'm the light of the world
I'll feel grand
Got this love, I can feel
And I know, Yes for sure
It is real

And it feels as though I've seen your face a thousand times
And you said you really know me yourself
And I know that you’ve got a thing to read and write
But you say you're gonna leave it for yourself
Oh
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on baby just understand

This is it
I can say
Im the light of your world
gone away
we can feel
This is real
Every time I'm in love then I feel

And I feel as though I've known you since a thousand years
And you tell me that you've seen my face before
And you said to me that you don't want me hanging around
many times you wanna do it here before

Oh yeah
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/michael-jackson-lyrics/this-is-it-lyrics.html ]
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on baby just understand

This is it
I can feel
I'm the light of the world
This is real
Give me songs
we can sing
And I tell you the thing that I pray

And I feels as though I've known you for a thousand years
And you said you saw my face yourself
And you said want to go on a while
And I know that it's really true myself
Oh yeah
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on please dear understand

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on dear please understand
Oh yeah

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan


These lyrics are submitted by Patrice Lauren.