This Is It

This Is It is a previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson, released as a promotional single for the This Is It documentary and the 15th track to the movie's soundtrack.

The song was co-written and recorded with Paul Anka in 1980 under the title "I Never Heard". The song was intended to be added as an album track on Anka's album, Walk a Fine Line, although ultimately it didn't make the cut. Jackson once took cassettes of songs from Anka without his permission, because of which Paul threatened to sue MJ. When returning the tapes to Paul, he insisted that MJ made his own copy of I Never Heard and re-title the song to This Is It.

After Michael's passing in 2009, his brothers found a box with cassettes with a "bare bone" demo of This Is It featuring only piano and vocals. The song got reworked by John McClain and Mervyn Warren with backing vocals done by The Jacksons. Although the song has nothing to do with it, it was used by Sony to promote the This Is It documentary. It was the first new MJ song to be released after his passing.

A few years later, Anka did his rework of the song, this time featuring previously unheard vocals from I Never Heard over an upbeat instrumental. The song got featured on his 2013 album, Duets.

On December 27, 2009, a music video for the song was released, directed by Spike Lee who previously worked on They Don't Care About Us clips. The video compiles footage of Jackson recorded during the This Is It rehearsals.

Ready?
One, two, three, four

This is it, here I stand
I'm the light of the world, I 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 going to live it for yourself, oh

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan (My plan)
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on, baby, just understand

This is it, I can say
I'm the light of the world, runaway
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 you don't want me hanging 'round
Many times want to do it here before, oh yeah

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan (My plan)
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on, baby, just understand

This is it (This is it), I can feel (I can feel)
I'm the light of the world, this is real
Feel my song, we can say
And I tell you I feel that way

And I feel as though I've known you for a thousand years
And you said you want some of this yourself
And you said you want to go with me all the 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 (My plan)
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on, please dear, understand (Understand)
Ah-ayy
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn't my plan (My plan)
I never thought that I would be your lover
Come on, please dear, understand (Understand)

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

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