Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song) Harrison sings of friends who are "drunk away, shot away, or die away from you". Author Ian Inglis likens the song's message, regarding the need to accept and prepare for death, to a philosophical point espoused by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Inglis writes that, like Borges in his poem "Limits", Harrison fully accepts the impermanence of life and so challenges Dylan Thomas's contention (in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night") that the inevitability of death should be defied until the end. Harrison recorded "Writing's on the Wall" during the main sessions for "Somewhere in England", held at
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s." According to Daryl Hall, during the recording of "We Are the World", Michael Jackson approached him and admitted to lifting the bass line for "Billie Jean" from a Hall & Oates song, apparently referring to "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)." Hall says that he told Jackson that he had lifted the bass line from another song himself, and that it was "something we all do." Van Halen would also do something similar by lifting the synthesizer used in "Kiss On My List" for their hit "Jump".