"All in Your Name" is a previously unreleased song by Barry Gibb featuring Michael Jackson. The track, the music video and footage of recording sessions were released on Gibb's site on June 25, 2011, 2 years after Jackson's passing. Despite the release however, "All in Your Name" isn't available on streaming services. (
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Background[]
The song was written in protest of the U.S. government's plan to invade Iraq in 2003, and recorded by Gibb and Jackson in 2002 at Bee Gees' Middle Ear Studios in Florida. Barry first confirmed the song in October, 2005. Among other titles, it became a contender for Jackson's never-finished eleventh studio album, being included on his notes under the title "MJ Barri Gibb Song".
| “ | Michael Jackson and I were the dearest of friends, that's simply what it was. We gravitated towards the same kind of music and we loved collaborating and he was the easiest person to write with. The more we got to know each other the more those ideas entwined and it all came to this song All In Your Name. All in Your Name is in fact the message that Michael wanted to send out to all of his fans all over the world that he did it all for them and for the pure love of music. [...] | ” |
–Barry Gibb on "All in Your Name"[1] | ||
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Now I got a mission
The story unfolds
What the wise men have told you, is already known
That a woman and a man
Should go by the plan
And we find out, how high we can fly
There's just one religion
One family of love
We suffer the children
As God cries above
And the giving, not the taking
With hearts open wide
And it looks like we fall
And it burns like a flame
Any ground that I claim
[Pre-Chorus]
So what is my life
If I don't believe
There is someone to watch me
Follow my dreams
Take all my chances, like those who dare?
And what of our world
What does it become
When the damage is done?
And you held out, you said no, you stand up
[Chorus]
Only God knows
That it’s all in the game
It’s all in Your Name
Carry me to the Gates of Paradise
They're the same
It's all in Your Name
[Verse 2]
Look to Heaven
An Angel appears
To love and protect us
Through all of our tears
And the gateway to peace
It stands open wide
And it looks like we fall
And it burns like a flame
Any ground that I claim
[Pre-Chorus]
So what is my life
If I don't believe
There is someone to watch me
Follow my dreams
Take all my chances, like those who dare?
And where is the peace
We're searching for
Under the shadows of war?
Can we hold out, and stand up, and say no?
[Chorus]
Only God knows
That it's all in the game (Oh)
It's all in Your Name (Oh yeah)
Follow me to the Gates of Paradise
They're the same
It's all in Your Name
[Bridge]
Say the word and I'll be there
To love you, and understand you
Meet the line on, and understand [?]
Will they all know [?] (It's over)
Then we'll all know [?] (It's over)
See? that it's done [?] (And it's all in Your Name)
[Chorus]
It's all in the game
It's all in Your Name
Follow me through the Gates of Paradise
They're the same (yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah)
It's all in the game
It's all in Your Name
Follow me through the Gates of Paradise
They're the same
They're the same (yeah-yeah)
[Outro]
It's all in the game
It's all in the game
Follow me through the Gates of Paradise
They're the same
It's all in Your Name
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Trivia[]
- The cover art is a picture of Jackson and Gibb during the recording sessions of "Eaten Alive".