What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MICHAEL JACKSON "HIStory: past, present & future"  cd,  1995.

a double disk set.
first disk is a fifteen track compilation, and what a set of songs, just about everyone is a cracker, up there with the best compilations by anyone, anywhere IMO.
second disk is a new studio album of fourteen tracks, one cover one here, Beatles' "come together", i could have seriously done without that one, sorry, but who told MJ that was a suitable tune for his voice and style.
had no idea the hit single "you are not alone" was actually written by R-Kelly.
MJ is getting a social conscience on this one which at times feels like he was going to go all "innerviions" or "whats going on" on us.
i love five or six of the new tracks, like the majority of the remainder with a couple of duds.
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

disk one: the track that would be pretty high on my list of top10 favourite pop songs of all time.
watching him do this one still sends shivers ib my spine when i watch it, absolutely incredible performer, second to none IMO

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disk 2:  quite possibly one of the saddest songs you will ever hear, seems quite poignant with the deatails of his abusive childhood that emerged prior to and after he died:





Have you seen my childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me.


People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things
It's been my fate to compensate
For the childhood
I've never known.

Have you seen my childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates in adventurous dreams
Of conquest and kings on the throne.

Before you judge me
Try hard to love me
Look within your heart then ask
Have you seen my childhood?.

People say I'm strange that way
'Cause I love such elementary things
It's been my fate to compensate
For the childhood I've never known.

Have you seen my childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like fantastical stories to share
The dreams I would dare, watch me fly.

Before you judge me, try hard to love me
The painful youth I've had.

Have you seen my childhood