Released: January 16, 1975
Songwriter: Elliot Willensky Hal Davis
Producer: Hal Davis
[Verse 1]
She wrote "Dear Michael
You will probably never get this letter
Michael, I wrote you a hundred times before
Knowing how I feel
I will write a hundred more"
[Verse 2]
"Dear Michael, every time your record is on
(Michael Michael)
Michael, I close my eyes and sing along
Dreaming you are singing to me"
(Ouch)
[Verse 3]
And then, she wrote
(Ouch)
"Michael, I love you
I held the tears back as long as I can
(Ouch)
I am sealing my feelings in this envelope
(Ouch)
Because I want to be more than just your number one fan"
[Verse 4]
I am going to answer your letter
(Michael Michael)
I will start beginning with the ABC's of loving you
(I love you)
(She wrote)
(Michael Michael)
(I love you)
Your letter really touched my heart
(She wrote)
I have been dreaming of meeting the picture
That you send along, signed with all your love
(Michael Michael)
(I wrote you)
(She wrote)
I am going to write you back, ouch, I promise you that
(Would not you write me back?, please write me back)
[Verse 5]
Girl, I think I love you
(Michael Michael)
Hurry, hurry mister postman, take my letter, tell her I love her
(She wrote)
(Would not you write me back, please write me back)
(Michael Michael)
(She wrote)
Hurry, hurry mister postman, take my letter to tell her I love her
(Would not you write me back, please write me back)
[Outro]
(Michael Michael)
Yeah
(I wrote you)
(She wrote)
I am going to write you back
I promise you that
She wrote "Dear Michael
You will probably never get this letter
Michael, I wrote you a hundred times before
Knowing how I feel
I will write a hundred more"
[Verse 2]
"Dear Michael, every time your record is on
(Michael Michael)
Michael, I close my eyes and sing along
Dreaming you are singing to me"
(Ouch)
[Verse 3]
And then, she wrote
(Ouch)
"Michael, I love you
I held the tears back as long as I can
(Ouch)
I am sealing my feelings in this envelope
(Ouch)
Because I want to be more than just your number one fan"
[Verse 4]
I am going to answer your letter
(Michael Michael)
I will start beginning with the ABC's of loving you
(I love you)
(She wrote)
(Michael Michael)
(I love you)
Your letter really touched my heart
(She wrote)
I have been dreaming of meeting the picture
That you send along, signed with all your love
(Michael Michael)
(I wrote you)
(She wrote)
I am going to write you back, ouch, I promise you that
(Would not you write me back?, please write me back)
[Verse 5]
Girl, I think I love you
(Michael Michael)
Hurry, hurry mister postman, take my letter, tell her I love her
(She wrote)
(Would not you write me back, please write me back)
(Michael Michael)
(She wrote)
Hurry, hurry mister postman, take my letter to tell her I love her
(Would not you write me back, please write me back)
[Outro]
(Michael Michael)
Yeah
(I wrote you)
(She wrote)
I am going to write you back
I promise you that
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- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- If’n I Was God
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- Maybe Tomorrow
- One Day In Your Life
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- We’re Almost There
- Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Rockin’ Robin
- Got to Be There
- In Our Small Way
- Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ben
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- People Make The World Go ’Round
- Music And Me
- Happy (Love Theme From ”Lady Sings The Blues”)
- All the Things You Are
- With A Child’s Heart
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
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- Anthology (1995 Edition) (1995)
- Anthology (2008 Gold Edition) (2008)
- Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009)
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- Smooth Criminal
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- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
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