Lets tear something apart! Let’s dick with George Michael’s “Freedom 90” lyrics!

I won’t let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It’s the one good thing that I’ve got
I won’t let you down
So please don’t give me up
Because I would really, really love to stick around

Okay the first chunk here is pretty self explanitory. Georgie is missing the fame that came with running around with Wham. Its a pretty straight forward plea to his fans (?) that he loves them.

Heaven knows I was just a young boy
Didn’t know what I wanted to be
I was every little hungry schoolgirl’s pride and joy
And I guess it was enough for me

George! How self indulgent! You forgot to mention many snickering young gay men.

To win the race? A prettier face!
Brand new clothes and a big fat place
On your rock and roll TV
But today the way I play the game is not the same
No wayThink I’m gonna get myself happy

or …gay?

I won’t let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It’s the one good thing that I’ve got

Okay he’s got a point. He does have a good voice. But that little glint of boasting just turns me off.

I won’t let you down
So please don’t give me up
Because I would really, really love to stick around

Read: I need money

I think there’s something you should know
I think it’s time I told you so
There’s something deep inside of me
There’s someone else I’ve got to be

“You’re coming out of the closet? Why do they always come out to me?” –Stewie Griffin

Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

Frankie say…Choose Life!

All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow

Who is living a lie here, George?

All we have to see
Is that I don’t belong to you
And you don’t belong to me
Freedom
You’ve gotta give for what you take
Freedom
You’ve gotta give for what you take

At this point we’re pretty much set that George needs to confess something.

Heaven knows we sure had some fun boy
What a kick just a buddy and me
We had every big shot good-time band on the run boy
We were living in a fantasy

And you were the prototype for Back Street Boys, Nsync etc as manufactured pop bands. Cheers!

We won the race

You ran like a girl

Got out of the place

Pfft! Riiiiiight. You got into a bitch slapping session with Sony.

I went back home got a brand new face
For the boys on MTV

You took out your hoop earrings and grew scruffy facial hair. Best thing you did all through the 90s

But today the way I play the game has got to change

How is your whole “Sony” thing going, George?

Oh yeah
Now I’m gonna get myself happy

Or… some hot gay buttsex?

I think there’s something you should know
I think it’s time I stopped the show
There’s something deep inside of me
There’s someone I forgot to be

Subconciously you’re not forgetting. Nice shoes!

Take back your picture in a frame
Don’t think that I’ll be back again
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man

Here George is asking his teenybopper fanbase to “grow up” with him. Or just grow up. Not sure.

All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow

This is the pivitol “cry for help” lyric in the whole song. Rumours were swirling for years about his sexuality since Day One. Right up to the arrest.

All we have to see
Is that I don’t belong to you
And you don’t belong to me

I beg to differ. When you’re a celebrity you become public property. You didnt magically wake up one day with the paparazzi outside your door, so quit yer bitchin.

Freedom
You’ve gotta give for what you take
Freedom
You’ve gotta give for what you take

Okay. Sure.

Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody’s got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last

I am assuming (ha! ass -u- me!) that he’s refering to the butt-shake in the Faith video. He sees that as a mistake? It make him money and got him past the “pretty boy” image of Wham (yes I am being quite sarcastic, thank you.)

That’s what you get
I say that’s what you get
That’s what you get for changing your mind

Again, not sure what this means. Dont know enough of George’s history to get this one.

And after all this time
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes
Do not make the man

Nope. Especially when they’re bunched up around your ankles in a washroom somewhere.

I’ll hold on to my freedom
May not be what you want from me
Just the way it’s got to be
Lose the face now
I’ve got to live

Read: Take me seriously!! (snicker)

Okay dont get me wrong, I like what he’s doing these days. he’s matured nicely and his voice has aged well (though I am not liking some of that weird LA-style facial hair scuplting), but you gotta laugh when someone you like confesses a lie and you go back and review everything they ever said with enlightenment. My friends did when I came out. They dragged me over the coals for dating Kim House, a cheerleader back in high school

I kid. I kid because I love.