Eaten Alive (with Diana Ross) (1985)

Eaten Alive is a 1985 album released by Diana Ross on the RCA label. The album featured the top ten R&B title track produced and composed by Michael Jackson with the rest of the album conceived by members of the Bee Gees including the UK and Australia number one hit, “Chain Reaction”. Barry Gibb accompanied Ross in the background on most of the tracks with Jackson singing alongside Ross on “Eaten Alive”. “Experience” was also released as a single, reaching #47 in the UK Singles Chart.

(with Diana Ross)
Animal stalking you at night
I’m a sucker for someone
And I got the prey in sight
Lying on a bed of leaves
In the modern times
You forget and let your spirit breathe

Capture me my blood is red
Another vitim of your ritual
For you my skin is shed
Ecstacy ain’t what you find
In the modern world
One flick of my tongue changes
The meaning of the world
And you say
That’s impossible
That’s not impossible to do, oh
And you digest what I can see
The taste of you can be

Chorus:
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
‘Cause you’re so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
To be eaten alive
Eaten alive
I don’t ever wanna be
Eaten alive

Now I got you on the run
And the quicker my senses
And the chance is, I’m the faster one
I know the universal law
Primeval times
With a little stimulation
It’ll come once more, and you say
That’s impossible
It’s not impossible to do, oh
And you digest what I can see
The taste of you can be

(Chorus)

I don’t wanna get eaten alive
‘Cause you’re so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
To be eaten alive
Tie me to a tree, crawl all over me
You can rip my shirt, drag me in the dirt
I will be your slave, anything you say
I don’t ever wanna be eaten alive

I don’t wanna get eaten alive
‘Cos you’re so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
‘Cos you’re so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
‘Cos you’re so dangerous
No more hearts I can trust, you see
I don’t wanna get eaten alive
To be eaten alive

Gotta do her, crawl all over me
You can rip my shirt, drag me in the dirt
I will be your slave, anything you say
I don’t ever wanna be, eaten alive

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Michael Jackson’s mother will retain custody of his children

The mother of Michael Jackson will retain custody of his children, and the biological mother of the two elder children will visit and maintain her legal parental rights under an agreement reached by both sides, The Times has learned.

Katherine Jackson, 79, the late pop icon’s mother, and Debbie Rowe, 50, who bore Jackson’s two older children, also agreed to mutually hire a child psychologist to advise them on how, when and where Rowe’s visits should take place, a knowledgeable source said.

The agreement will go before a Los Angeles judge Monday, and both sides expect the judge to approve it, the source said. Rowe did not ask for custody. “Debbie is really happy” about the arrangement, said the source, refusing to be identified because the agreement has yet to be announced.

The source said Rowe did not receive any money under the arrangement and will pay half of the fees for the child psychologist.

Neither side made any demands that were rejected, the source said, and the arrangement was agreed to without contentious negotiation.

In his will, Jackson named his mother as guardian. Singer Diana Ross was listed as an alternative choice should his mother be unable to care for the children. Rowe has not seen the children in several years and at one time relinquished her parental rights.

During a period when she had visitation, she complained that she was forced to meet the children in hotel rooms in the presence of Jackson’s associates and could not make up for visits she missed.

Rowe met Jackson while working in the office of Dr. Arnold Klein, his Beverly Hills dermatologist. Jackson wanted her to have children for him. “If someone needs something, I’m there, you know,” Rowe later said in a televised interview.

Jackson and Rowe married in 1996 when she was six months pregnant after being artificially inseminated. She is the mother of Prince Michael Jr., 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11. Jackson’s youngest child, Prince Michael II, 7, called “Blanket,” was borne by an unidentified surrogate.

Rowe lives on a horse farm in Palmdale that she purchased after receiving an $8.5-million divorce settlement from Jackson. The terms of the divorce, finalized in 2000, gave Jackson sole custody of the children and Rowe visitation. She soon stopped visiting the children because she said “it was not working out,” according to court records.

After giving up her parental rights in 2001, Rowe went to court in 2003 to challenge that waiver. At the time, Jackson was facing child molestation charges. An appeals court ruled in her favor.

– Maura Dolan in San Francisco

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