There’s a ghost down in the hall
There’s a ghoul upon the bed
There’s something in the walls
There’s blood upon the stairs
And it’s floating through the room
And there’s nothing I can see
And I know its restless tune
Because now it’s haunting me
I don’t understand it
Don’t understand it

There’s a thumping in the floor
There’s a creep behind the door
There’s a rocking in the chair
But there’s no one sitting there
There’s a ghostly smell around
But nobody to be found
And a coffin nearly open
Where a restless soul is floating
Don’t understand it
Don’t understand it

And who gave you the right to scare my family
And who gave you the right to shake my baby
She needs me
And who gave you the right to shake my family tree
You put a knife in my back
Shot an arrow in me
Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy
The ghost of jealousy

There’s a thumping in the floor
There’s a creep behind the door
There’s a rocking in the chair
But nobody’s sitting there
There’s a ghostly smell around
But nobody to be found
And a coffin nearly open
Where a restless soul is floating
Don’t understand it
Don’t understand it
You just don’t know

And who gave you the right to scare my family
And who gave you the right to scare my baby
She needs me
And who gave you the right to shake my family tree
And who gave you the right to make intrusion to see me
And who gave you the right to shake my family
And who gave you the right to hurt my baby
She needs me
And who gave you the right to shake my family tree
You put a knife in my back
Shot an arrow in me
Tell me are you the ghost of jealousy
A suckin’ ghost of jealousy

(Written and composed by Michael Jackson & Teddy Riley)

© 1996 MIJAC Music, administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. / Zomba Enterprises, Inc. and Donril Music.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.