Get Your Weight Off Of Me (found unreleased Michael Jackson demo; 1997-2001)

CD auctioned in 2018 containing the song

Status: Found

Date found: 22 Aug 2023

Found by: Unknown

Get Your Weight Off Of Me was a song recorded by Michael Jackson during recording sessions for his album "Invincible" with producer Rodney 'Darkchild' Jerkins. These sessions took place in 1997 and lasted until 2001. The exact year Get Your Weight Off Of Me was recorded hasn't been confirmed. The track was scrapped from Invincible but was mastered and planned to be released on the Michael Jackson Ultimate Collection in 2004, however, it was scrapped yet again. It's assumed the song was considered for Michael's second posthumous album Xscape, but it again didn't make the cut

Snippets of the song had been circulating on the internet since 2010, but it was never known for sure by the community what snippets were real or fake. It became the most well-known unreleased song among fans.

Availability

While it remains unknown how many copies exist, the Michael Jackson Estate owns a copy and a CD with the date of March 31st, 2014 has the song on it. The CD with the song was auctioned in 2018, though nobody ended up buying it. The date on the auctioned CD is the same day Xscape was announced.

The song was leaked on the internet on August 22, 2023, just days before Michael Jackson's birthday (August 29). However the version that was shared was edited, intro cut and added another false, increased speed, part of the break cut, the last choir was cut, however several fans are trying to return it to its original state.

THERE ARE NO THREE VERSIONS OF THE SONG, ONLY TWO (writer's demo and MJ versión, the version of TUC is the same as Invincible sessions)

You can also listen to the leaked snippets here

Gallery

Original Leak. (Slightly Edited)

Original song. (Removes edits and has same tempo as snippets)

Lyrics

You took my heart in your hand

I'll bleed and run like a man

I'll never see you again

(listen)

I was the fool you could take

Another heart you could break

So let me go for my sake

[pre-chorus]

I’ll get a message to you

You know I’ll never stop trying, baby (Can’t stop)

This will get by, baby

See, you got a lesson to learn

You only get what you earn (No, no, no)

I've

And I have to go my way alone, baby

[chorus]

Just get your weight off of me

You keep on hating on me

You just don't have what it takes

So let me go for our sake

No more of me left to break

[Verse 2]

I'm like Your dog on a chain

My

You signed the house in your name

(Listen)

I have the pill you should take

Of that disease I can shake

You're every doctor's mistake

(yeah, yeah, yeah)

[pre-chorus]

I’ll get a message to you

You know I’ll never stop trying, baby (Can’t stop)

This will get by, baby

See, you got a lesson to learn

You only get what you earn (No, no, no)

I've got this game (No, no, no, no)

[chorus]

Just get your weight off of me

Why don't you just let me be

You keep on hating on me

You just don't have what it takes

So let me go for our sake

No more of me left to break

You just, you just did it

Just get your weight off of me

Why don't you just let me be

You

You just don't have what it takes

So let me

No more of me left to break

[pre-chorus]

I’ll get a message to you

You know I’ll never stop trying, baby (Can’t stop)

This will get by, baby

See, you got a lesson to learn

You only get what you earn (No, no, no)

I've got this game (No, no, no, no)

And I have to go my way alone, baby

[chorus]

Just get your weight off of me

Why don't you just let

Related Pages

• Michael Jackson (partially found unpublished songs from American musician; 1974-2009)