Key: C#m
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It' s close to midnight, and something evil' s, lurking in the dark.
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Under the moonlight, you see a sight, that almost stops your heart.
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You try to scream, but terror takes the sound, before you make it.
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You start to freeze, as horror looks you right between the eyes
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You' re para-lyzed.
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' Cos this is Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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And no one' s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.
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You know it' s Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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You' re fighting for your life, inside a killer, Thriller, to-night.
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You hear the door slam, and realise there' s nowhere left to run.
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You feel the cold hand, and wonder if you' ll ever see the sun.
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You close your eyes, and hope that this is just imagi-nation.
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But all the while, you hear the creature creepin' up be-hind
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You' re out of time.
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' Cos this is Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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There ain' t no second chance to kill the thing with forty eyes, girl.
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Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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You' re fighting for your life, inside a killer, Thriller, to-night.
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Night creatures call and the dead start to walk in their masquerade.
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There' s no escapin' the jaws of the alien, this time
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This is the end of your life.
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They' re out to get you there' s demons closing in on every side.
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They will pos-sess you unless you change the number on your dial.
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Now is the time, for you and I to cuddle close to-gether.
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All through the night, I' ll save you from the terror on the screen
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I' ll make you see...
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That this is Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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' Cos I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare try.
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Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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So let me hold you tight, and share a killer,
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Diller, chiller, Thriller here to-night.
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That this is Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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' Cos I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare try.
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Thril-ler, Thril-ler Night
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So let me hold you tight, and share a killer, thriller, ow!
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...I' m gonna thrill you tonight.
(Vincent Price)
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Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand.
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Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorise your neighbourhood.
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And whosoever shall be found, without the soul for getting down,
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Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell and rot inside a corpse' s shell.
(with Vocal Ad-libs)
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The foulest stench is in the air the funk of forty thousand years,
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And grizzy ghouls from every tomb, are closing in to seal your doom.
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And though you fight to stay alive your body starts to shiver,
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For no mere mortal can resist, the evil of The Thriller
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