Lets tear something apart! Let’s dick with George Michael’s “Freedom 90” lyrics!
\n
\nI won’t let you down
\nI will not give you up
\nGotta have some faith in the sound
\nIt’s the one good thing that I’ve got
\nI won’t let you down
\nSo please don’t give me up
\nBecause I would really, really love to stick around
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Heaven knows I was just a young boy
\nDidn’t know what I wanted to be
\nI was every little hungry schoolgirl’s pride and joy
\nAnd I guess it was enough for me
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

George! How self indulgent! You forgot to mention many snickering young gay men.<\/p>\n

To win the race? A prettier face!
\nBrand new clothes and a big fat place
\nOn your rock and roll TV
\nBut today the way I play the game is not the same
\nNo way<\/em>Think I’m gonna get myself happy<\/p>\n

or …gay?<\/p>\n

I won’t let you down
\nI will not give you up
\nGotta have some faith in the sound
\nIt’s the one good thing that I’ve got
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay he’s got a point. He does have a good voice. But that little glint of boasting just turns me off.
\n
\nI won’t let you down
\nSo please don’t give me up
\nBecause I would really, really love to stick around
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Read: I need money
\n
\nI think there’s something you should know
\nI think it’s time I told you so
\nThere’s something deep inside of me
\nThere’s someone else I’ve got to be
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

“You’re coming out of the closet? Why do they always come out to me?” –Stewie Griffin
\n
\nTake back your picture in a frame
\nTake back your singing in the rain
\nI just hope you understand
\nSometimes the clothes do not make the man
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Frankie say…Choose Life!<\/p>\n

All we have to do now
\nIs take these lies and make them true somehow
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Who is living a lie here, George?
\n
\nAll we have to see
\nIs that I don’t belong to you
\nAnd you don’t belong to me
\nFreedom
\nYou’ve gotta give for what you take
\nFreedom
\nYou’ve gotta give for what you take
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

At this point we’re pretty much set that George needs to confess something.
\n
\nHeaven knows we sure had some fun boy
\nWhat a kick just a buddy and me
\nWe had every big shot good-time band on the run boy
\nWe were living in a fantasy
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

And you were the prototype for Back Street Boys, Nsync etc as manufactured pop bands. Cheers!
\n
\nWe won the race
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

You ran like a girl
\n
\nGot out of the place
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Pfft! Riiiiiight. You got into a bitch slapping session with Sony.
\n
\nI went back home got a brand new face
\nFor the boys on MTV
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

You took out your hoop earrings and grew scruffy facial hair. Best thing you did all through the 90s
\n
\nBut today the way I play the game has got to change
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

How is your whole “Sony” thing going, George?
\n
\nOh yeah
\nNow I’m gonna get myself happy
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Or… some hot gay buttsex?
\n
\nI think there’s something you should know
\nI think it’s time I stopped the show
\nThere’s something deep inside of me
\nThere’s someone I forgot to be
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Subconciously you’re not forgetting. Nice shoes!
\n
\nTake back your picture in a frame
\nDon’t think that I’ll be back again
\nI just hope you understand
\nSometimes the clothes do not make the man
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Here George is asking his teenybopper fanbase to “grow up” with him. Or just grow up. Not sure.
\n
\nAll we have to do now
\nIs take these lies and make them true somehow
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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.
\n
\nAll we have to see
\nIs that I don’t belong to you
\nAnd you don’t belong to me
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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.
\n
\nFreedom
\nYou’ve gotta give for what you take
\nFreedom
\nYou’ve gotta give for what you take
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay. Sure.
\n
\nWell it looks like the road to heaven
\nBut it feels like the road to hell
\nWhen I knew which side my bread was buttered
\nI took the knife as well
\nPosing for another picture
\nEverybody’s got to sell
\nBut when you shake your ass
\nThey notice fast
\nAnd some mistakes were built to last
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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.)
\n
\nThat’s what you get
\nI say that’s what you get
\nThat’s what you get for changing your mind
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, not sure what this means. Dont know enough of George’s history to get this one.
\n
\nAnd after all this time
\nI just hope you understand
\nSometimes the clothes
\nDo not make the man
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Nope. Especially when they’re bunched up around your ankles in a washroom somewhere.
\n
\nI’ll hold on to my freedom
\nMay not be what you want from me
\nJust the way it’s got to be
\nLose the face now
\nI’ve got to live
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Read: Take me seriously!! (snicker)<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

I kid. I kid because I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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