"Unknown Neff-U Song" is a placeholder name for a unreleased song by Michael Jackson intended for the scrapped eleventh studio album. A fourty second snippet of the track can be heard in the MICHAEL: The Making of the Album documentary. (
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Background[]
As Neff-U explains in the documentary, this recording shows how Michael sometimes created songs.
| “ | What we're gonna play for you, is an example of how Michael created. I'm on a piano, he's in the booth and he's gonna get to a part where he's gonna be very emotional and he's gonna stat expressing to you how he feels about the world. | ” |
–Neff-U on Michael's creative process[1] | ||
The producer didn't give away any info on the track or it's title. However, considering it was made with Neff-U, it most definitely dates back to either 2008 or 2009.
Lyrics[]
[Verse]
It's like, when a mother sends her child off to war,
They don't know if they're ever gonna come back, you know
How can we look at such things happening and not, you know, wanna do something
How can we turn our heads and pretend as if we don't see it, you know
I can't see people in pain
They pretend as if it's not there (?)
Trivia[]
- Fans speculate, this track could be "For the World", although this is completely false.[2]