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 demo recorded by Michael Jackson during recording sessions for his album "Invincible." 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 reworked 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.

You can also listen to the leaked snippets here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjYKgyTY1tU (Note: The leaked version of the song is faster than the snippets because it is the demo. Most snippets are most likely from the 2004 reworked version. Both are official, however.)

Gallery

Original Leak. (Slightly Edited)

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

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

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 on my way

[pre-chorus]

I’ll get a message to you

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

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 me be

You keep on hating on me

[Verse 2]

Im like Your dog on a chain

My thoughts on you still remain

You signed the house in your name

(Listen)

I have the pill you should take

All 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)

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 me be

You keep on hating on me

[final chorus]

Just get your weight off of me (You ain't gonna ever get out)

(You ain't gonna ever get out)

Just get your weight off of me (You ain't gonna ever get out)

Just get your weight off of me (You ain't gonna ever get out)

(You ain't gonna ever get out)

Just get your weight off of me (You ain't gonna ever get out)

Related Pages

• Michael Jackson (partially found unpublished songs from American musician; 1974-2009)