We fattened the pad a little on the body, and the line that counters the vocal on the second half of the first “Human Nature” chorus is my sound playing a line written by Rod Temperton. That fuzz was also part of a multi-layered sound I used for the four-chord basic string vamp on “Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson himself played that part on a CS-80 in one take. He used a Yamaha CS-80 with glide (chromatic instead of portamento) at the head - it’s got that nice little CS fuzz around the sound. I was completely thrilled with what John did with the lyrics.
Porcaro recalls: “I forced myself to write the lyrics and Quincy was less than thrilled with them and he asked me if I would mind if he brought in John Bettis to finish them. Jones played both sides of the cassette and was excited about “Human Nature.” Quincy called David the next day and was raving about this tune that went ‘why, why.’ It took David half an hour to tell Quincy that it wasn’t his song! But the song was incomplete lyric-wise and Jones asked Porcaro to finish them. I didn’t have any blank cassettes, so I took a cassette that had ‘Human Nature’ on one side and turned the B-side over, rewound it and put on these two songs of David’s. One time, he had gotten a call that the messenger was on his way and he called down to me and told me to throw something we’d been working on onto a cassette. Quincy had been asking David for songs and he was sending a messenger almost every day to David’s house – where I was living at the time – to pick up anything David was working on. Like most of my songs it was an unfinished song. I had the ‘why, why’ chorus with the slap echo. I had written the lyrics, which were the same verse I was singing over and over again. I wrote the song while we were mixing “Africa” and was just tinkering on the piano and wrote ‘Human Nature.’ It was one of a batch of three songs I had written in a certain time period.
Something had happened at school and it just inspired me. I had written the song for my daughter Heather. Looking out, across the morning The city's heart begins to beat Reaching out, I touch her shoulder I'm dreaming of the street If they say why (why?), why (why?) Tell them that it's human nature Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? If they say why (why?), why (why?) (She's giving in by keeping him a'round) Ooh-ooh, tell 'em! Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? If they say why (why?), why (why?), why (why?) Cha-da-cha-sha-sha-sha-sha-sha (aah-ah) Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? If they say why (why? why?), why (why? why? why?) (She's giving in by keeping him a'round) Ooh-ooh, tell 'em! (aah-ah) Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? If they say why (why?), why (why?), why (why?) Ooh, tell 'em! Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? If they say why (why?), why (why?) (She's giving in by keeping him a'round) Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Why (why?), why (why?), does he do me that way? I like living this way Why? Oh, why? (that way) Why? Oh, why? (that way) Why? Oh, why? (that way)
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