I love this song so much. An underrated MJ jam! His vocals are so flawless and Santana's guitar: splendid as always! Love to listen to this at night


He gives another smile, tries to understand her side

To show that he cares

She's consumed with everything that's been goin' on

She says



[Chorus]

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand



Everything will be alright, he assures her

But she doesn't hear a word that he says

Preoccupied, she's afraid

Afraid that what they're doing is not right

He doesn't know what to say, so he prays

Whatever, whatever, whatever



[Chorus]

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't you let go of my hand



Don't let go of my hand

Don't let go of my hand



He's working day and night, thinks he'll make her happy

Forgetting all the dreams that he had

He doesn't realize it's not the end of the world

It doesn't have to be that bad

She tries to explain, "It's you that makes me happy,"

Whatever, whatever, whatever



[Chorus]

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't you let go of my hand



Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand

Whatever happens, don't you let go of my hand



Whatever happens, don't let go of my hand



[Carlos Santana:] Thank you, man!



[Michael Jackson:] Thank you, Carlos!



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[Edited 6/6/06 16:08pm]

I.T.A.!! They dropped the ball, the best track on that album.
That's actually a cool pix of M.J.

lopaka said:

MJ will always be the one!

carlcranshaw said:

Sony did a fucked up promotion with Invincible! Even not being a great mj album, it had excelent songs!

Yes, one of the 3 great tracks of Invincible (along with Butterflies and Break Of Dawn), I love the latin feeling of it.
In 2001, I was hoping he would release it as a single. I think it's one of the few songs that could've been a hit back then.

It took me a while to get into it for some reason, but I love it now. It's a really great song...
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BT11 said:

My favorite cuts are:

Break of Dawn
You Rock My World
Butterflies
Cry
Whatever Happens
Invincible
Speechless (reminds of She's out of life part II)

good song. Barely hear it though Its worth it for jacko's vocals alone. As has been said, it would been a hit on adult radio, and of course, possibally in latin quarters aswell. Its definately one of his more mature cuts.

thesexofit said:

That was my favorite mascot of the world cup!

Portugal is gonna win this year!

Great, great, great song.

Was supposed to follow Unbreakable as a single in summer 2002.

We all know that story...

miguelbulcao said:

I agree,the album isn't spectacular but there are a handful of great songs that really should have been singles:

"Whatever Happens"
"Heaven Can Wait"
"Break Of Dawn"

I like the song a lot, but find the brief dialogue at the end between MJ and Santana excruciating.

Omadon said:

Thank you, man.

Cloudbuster said:

Omadon said:

I chopped that part off the song when I was re-doing the album with my "corrected" tracklisting

DavidEye said:

Heaven Can Wait actually made the Billboard R&B chart on airplay alone. It peaked at #72 and spent 16 weeks on the chart.

DavidEye said:

"Heaven Can Wait" was a (radio-only?) single.

Omadon said:

It could have been worse.

Carlos: Oh man! Look at that girl right there! Goodness gracious! That girl fine mang! Look at the…… oh! She's just too fine she know she fine too!

Michael: She is muy caliente’.

Carlos: Ooh, she's smooth!

Michael: Maria looks hot, you're right.

Carlos: She would look good in my line of women’s shoes.

Michael: Carlos, I can get her...

Carlos: You can't get that girl, Miguiel. I guarantee you can't get that girl! You can’t make her change her evil ways mang.

Michael: Watch me get that girl!

Carlos: I bet you never Neverland you can't! If you lose you have to record a duet with me and Prince…. Written by Rob Thomas. I’ll get Clive on my cell phone.

Michael: I can get her! You guys play some music so I can dance over there and talk to her.

Carlos: All right. Guys, let’s play Oya Como Va’.

(Organ chords come in) Michael: “That’s not Billie Jean. Oh well.”

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Cloudbuster said:

Wow.Just imagine what would have happened if Sony had actually promoted it.

carlcranshaw said:

carlcranshaw said:

Whew. That was funny

DavidEye said:

Aye. I know Invincible gets trashed a lot but I still think there were at least another four singles to be gotten mileage from. Shame.

Invincible has some excellent tracks on it, agreed. But why worry about charts, singles, sales, critics, etc? Sure there could have been more hits on it, but we can say the same about half a dozen Prince albums too - Just enjoy great music!!

fms said:

I agree. I'm just eternally baffled by comments like "It was crap as there were no singles from it", which I hear all the time.
By that measure Sgt. Pepper must be crap, too.

MJ didn't promote either.

lilgish said:

How could he when Sony dropped it? It's not like he could've released singles without their permission.

fms said:

True, but MJ himself needs to stop presenting things as if the sales are important to him, and the critics also need to stop measuring the quality of his work on sales, or the colour of his skin or whatever scandal he was going through at the time. I'm sick of it being a common presentation to the public like it's a fact that every one of his albums is worse than the one before. It's lazy and it's boring.

Cloudbuster said:

No Tour! Two Concerts! One Documentary!