I just love the story these lyrics reveal.
By MJ

Wanna Be Startin' Something-

If You Cant Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
Then Don't Have A Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
And Don't Think Maybe (Yeah, Yeah)
If You Can't Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
You'll Be Always Tryin'
To Stop That Child From Cryin'
Hustlin', Stealin', Lyin'
Now Baby's Slowly Dyin'
---(This is one of my favorites. Basically, you think you are young enough to have a child, so you go on and have sex without a condom and come to find you cant handle a child on your own at such a young age. So you'll resort to anything just to get by, but in the end your child is already scarred: emotionally & physically.)


Tabloid Junkie-

It's slander
You say it's not a sword
But with your pen you torture men
You'd crucify the Lord
And you don't have to read it, read it
And you don't have to eat it, eat it
To buy it is to feed it, feed it
So why do we keep foolin' ourselves
--- (hes talkibng about the press and how they would make up anything for just a good story. & he is also saying that its our own fault for believeing it because we buy it. We feed ourselved the lies.)



SHOUT-

We're disconnected from love, we're disrespecting each other
Whatever happened to protecting each other
Poisoned your body and your soul for a minute of pleasure,
But the damage that you've done is gonna last forever.
---(here Michael is talking about aids. He is saying that it takes a minute for you to get infected and last a lifetime. It is really that much of a hassel to use protection people!)