Michael Jackson: "This Is It" (2009)

"This Is It" is a song written by American musician Michael Jackson and Canadian singer Paul Anka. The song was recorded by the former and featured as a track on the album, This Is It (2009), which accompanies the Sony Pictures motion picture release Michael Jackson's This Is It. The track was premiered worldwide on Jackson's official website on October 12, 2009. The song is the only airplay single from Jackson's compilation album released by Epic Records.

"This Is It" is a pop ballad with lyrics that describe falling and being in love with someone. The instrumentation includes piano, guitar, percussion, and strings. Jackson's version, styled as a pop ballad, was his first song to chart on Billboards Hot Adult Contemporary Chart in over seventeen years. Sony misleadingly referred to the song as a "new single" during its promotion, but it was later confirmed that the song would only be released to radio, and not be available to buy or download as a single release. The song was generally well received by critics and had a good chart performance; it became a top twenty hit on charts in Japan and Spain, and peaked at number eighteen on both Billboard's Adult Contemporary and R&B/Hip-Hop song charts.

According to Anka, the song was recorded in 1983 and was intended to be a duet between him and Jackson on Anka's Walk a Fine Line album under the title "I Never Heard", but these plans fell through. Thereafter, recording artist Sa-Fire recorded the song for her second studio album, I Wasn't Born Yesterday (1991). While putting together the This Is It album, Jackson's demo version of the song was found. His brothers' vocals and additional instrumentation were then added to the recording. The song was accompanied by one music video. The video was directed by Spike Lee, and consisted of footage of Jackson as a child and clips of him throughout his career. It also featured footage of tributes from Jackson's fans around the world.

"This Is It" has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards. His last nomination for a Grammy was in this category at the 44th Grammy Awards for the song "You Rock My World".


- 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 too yourself
And I know that you have got addicted with your eyes
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
run away
we can feel
This is real
Every time I'm in love that 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 wanna do it here before
Oh yeah
I never heard a single word about you
(From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/michael-jackson-lyrics/this-is-it-lyrics.html)
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
feel my song
we can say
And I tell you can feel that way

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 with you on a while
And I know that it's really for 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