It's close to midnight And something evil's lurking from the dark Under the moonlight You see a sight that almost stops your heart You try to scream But terror takes the sound before you make it You start to freeze As horror looks you right between your eyes You're paralyzed You hear the door slam And realize there's nowhere left to run You feel the cold hand And wonder if you'll ever see the Sun You close your eyes And hope that this is just imagination (girl) But all the while You hear a creature creepin' up behind You're out of time 'Cause this is thriller (woo), thriller night There ain't no second chance Against the thing with the forty eyes, girl Thriller (ooh, ooh), thriller night You're fighting for your life Inside a killer, thriller tonight Night creatures call And the dead start to walk in their masquerade (masquerade) There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time (they're open wide) This is the end of your life, ooh 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night Ain't nobody's gonna save you from You know it's thriller, thriller night You're fighting for your life Inside a killer, thriller (yeah, thriller) Thriller, thriller night 'Cause I can thrill you more Than any ghoul would ever dare try Thriller (ooh-hoo), thriller night So let me hold you tight And share a killer, thriller, chiller (ow, ow) Thriller, here tonight, oh Thriller, thriller night Cause I can thrill you more Than any ghoul would ever dare try Thriller (ooh-hoo, woo-hoo), thriller night So let me hold you tight And share a killer, thriller (ow) Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y'all's neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds of hell And rot inside a corpse's shell The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grisly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller (Hahaha, hahaha, ah, ooh)