Rebbie Jackson

Released: March 31, 1998

Songwriter: Michael Jackson

Producer: Nick-nice Stonebridge Michael Jackson

[Verse 1: Rebbie Jackson]
Our love's in motion
Give me a notion cause
You know I'll never part
Our love goodbye
I love in season
Give me a reason cause
You know I'll never part
Our love goodbye

[Pre-Chorus: Rebbie Jackson]
And together we'll fly
I'll give you my heart
No place too far for us
We don't need it

[Chorus]
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today

Oooooh

[Verse 2: Rebbie Jackson]
I love a notion
Give me a motion cause
You know I never see
The thing you see
I love a reason
Give me a treason cause
You know I never part
I love so hard

[Pre-Chorus: Rebbie Jackson & Michael Jackson]
And together we'll fly
I'll give you my heart
(Give you m'heart)
No place too far for us
We don't need it

[Chorus]
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
In our love today

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Love is there to stay)

[Spoken: Rebbie Jackson]
You know, baby
I don't wanna go away
I don't wanna fly away
Oh no...

[Bridge: Rebbie Jackson & Michael Jackson]
Alone at last
I give you my heart
(Give you m'heart)
No place too far for us
We don't need it

[Chorus]
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Love is there to stay)

[Chorus: Rebbie Jackson & Michael Jackson]
Baby don't make me (I love you)
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me (Love you, love you)
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Love you girl)

Baby don't make me (Oh, oh, oh, hey)
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me (Make me fly away)
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Fly away)

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me (Baby) (yeah, you)
Baby don't make me (Don't fly away)
Fly away
Gonna stay (Oh, together we'll stay)
Love today

Baby don't make me (Oh yeah, oh yeah)
Baby don't make me (Love, love)
Baby don't make me (Oh, I'm in love, I'm in love)
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Hee-hee-hee!)

[Outro: Rebbie Jackson & Michael Jackson]
Baby don't make me (Hey, hey, yeah)
Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Love, yeah)

Baby don't make me
Baby don't make me (Ah, ah, ah)
Baby don't make me
Fly away
Gonna stay
Love today (Oh I'm going to love)

Baby don't make me (Love) (Oh yeah)
Baby don't make me

Rebbie Jackson is an American singer. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, she is the eldest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her siblings during shows in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in 1974, before subsequently appearing in the television series The Jacksons. Her sister La Toya was born on her sixth birthday. At age 34, Jackson released her debut album Centipede. The album featured songs written by Smokey Robinson, Prince, and Jackson’s younger brother Michael, whose contribution (the title track “Centipede”) became Rebbie’s most successful single release. By the end of the 1980s, the singer had released two more albums in quick Reaction and R U Tuff Enuff.

Following a 10-year hiatus in her musical career, Jackson returned with the 1998 album Yours Faithfully. The production of the album, her last to date, was a collaboration with artists and producers such as Men of Vizion’s Spanky Williams, Keith Thomas, and Eliot Kennedy. It also featured contributions from her children. In 2011, Rebbie embarked on the Pick Up the Phone Tour, which is dedicated to teens from all over the U.S. who have committed suicide.

Maureen Reillette “Rebbie” Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana to a working-class family on May 29, 1950. The daughter of Joseph Walter “Joe”), and Katherine Esther, she is the eldest of their 10 children. Her siblings are Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Brandon (d. March 12, 1957), Michael, Randy, and Janet. Joseph was a steel mill employee who often performed in a rhythm and blues (R&B) band called the Falcons with his brother, Luther. His wife, Katherine, is a Jehovah’s Witness and raised her children to follow the religion. Rebbie, La Toya, and Michael became the most devout of the children as time progressed. Reflecting on her early life, Rebbie acknowledged in a 1980s magazine interview that her role within the family had been that of a “second mother” to her younger siblings, whom she would often babysit, along with her eldest brother Jackie. She graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High school in Gary in 1968.

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