I can't help noticing (and I really mean that, I simply cannot help it) that there appears to be a mistake in the lyrics of "Thriller". Here's the Vincent Price "rap" section that comes at the end:

Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's [sic. sic, sic, sic, sic, sic] 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 grizzly 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

Look at the rhythm: dum de dum de dum de DUM, de dum de dum de dum de DUM
Now look at the last few lines. The rhyme scheme is all off: instead of couplets, it's just all over the place. But it looks like it's supposed to be ABAB. You can just about see that "shiver" could rhyme with "thriller" if you weren't paying attention, but what's with all this "alive / resist"? That just doesn't work. Now try the following:

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can survive
The evil of the thriller

Doesn't that seem much better? And, although it changes the meaning of the ending, it still makes about as much sense, more or less, as the original. So what went wrong?