To Be Forgiven

another song...that I cant believe that has no comments.

Soulful, sad and clear...George nails this whisper of a song. The high notes hit with skill..and feeling in every note. These lyrics are deep.. some are too deep, even I think I have them wrong.

Going down is a refferance to lost faith. Lost everything.Seeing past memory..but will it prove anything?

Feeling overwhelmed...feeling like your drowning. In life, in love, in everything. The inhalation of cold water..I am told, is the worst way to "go". Drowning is painful..you know you are going to die.

Save me from myself. Is self exsplanitory. We as a people, many times more than not...hurt ourselves. Make mistakes..over and over. We are own worst enemy most times, and breaking bad habits and patterns are hard..but not impossible. If I knew my sin- most of the time, we know we have done wrong. Some times we DO NOT know. We are so out of their head space..not considerate..didnt think twice...and we are hit with it later. That is why we beg to be forgiven.

Hope, and effort and prayers for a new day, a new start..faith.

Sometimes we don't know our sins. And some very hard life circumstances which just torturing us - was sent to us because of our unknown sins. We must accept it all. Just accept. But... sometimes the torture become very very hard, you cannot do anything but feeling the ache - and in the most moment you cry to God to forgive you your sin which you don't know, you ask Holy Mother to defend you to help! And suddenly the evil walks away you feel calm and peace. You just watch at the heaven feeling good and don't know how the miracle happened just singing these words in your heart: "to be forgiven..." The situation described is enclosed in this song. I really excited how Michael could express it in the song! This is really a talnt, a boon, a bestowal, a gift from Heaven! In fact you need to open your soul to the Heaven to be able to create! But opening your soul you could caught ill, the soul ill, the filth... It's a pity, Michael didn't escape.

Sometimes we don't know our sins. And some very hard life circumstances which just torturing us - was sent to us because of our unknown sins. We must accept it all. Just accept. But... sometimes the torture become very very hard, you cannot do anything but feeling the ache - and in the most moment you cry to God to forgive you your sin which you don't know, you ask Holy Mother to defend you to help! And suddenly the evil walks away you feel calm and peace. You just watch at the heaven feeling good and don't know how the miracle happened just singing these words in your heart: "to be forgiven..." The situation described is enclosed in this song. I really excited how Michael could express it in the song! This is really a talnt, a boon, a bestowal, a gift from Heaven! In fact you need to open your soul to the Heaven to be able to create! But opening your soul you could caught ill, the soul ill, the filth... It's a pity, Michael didn't escape.

That was my experience. I fell in love which tortured me for 7 years without any hope. The situation was called "intrigue" in women's world. I didn't know the meaning of it, why women always names the relation with such word. It takes me 7 years to understand the evil thing of this word. The swamp! Nothing to hold! Just going down in this unrighteous hope for love! Just drowning... This song is the sign of the help from Heaven, which sends you the facilitation in your torture in the temptation.

To me this song is solely about depression most probably caused by grief. "I'm going down.... won't you help me... save me from myself"... hes basically saying I need help, I'm drowning in my depression. "Suddenly my life is like a river.... taking me places I don't want to go." I believe this is about anselmo suffering and dying and him having to deal with that in his life, his mother hadn't sadly died at this point so life continued to be like a river taking him places he didn't want to go. "But like all good men who don't swim to well... it takes all I have just to cry for help" this screams depression... not swimming is not coping in life. Hes asking in the lyrics to "let me live my life beside the river (a reference to grove cottage where he later died) and he talks about the boy inside forsaking him... to me it tells me he just wants to try to cope and revert back to being a child so he doesn't have to deal with any of this. The whole older album is so beautiful and filled with sadness. So hard to think how hard he spiralled after the album was released and his mother lesley passed. I miss this man every single day.

At the beginning of the biography 'George Michael: A Life', we are told that George as a child had some very mean things said to him by his father, and he stated that he never got over it. The implication is that it affected him his entire life, and I think this song is about that. He sings 'I hear the sound of the memory', possibly recalling the words used.

'Save me from myself' again in the biography it states that George and his manager had at one point been overheard arguing about George's lifestyle, and George called out, 'Stop trying to save me from myself'. It is like he knew he had the potential to be his own worst enemy, and he drifted between wanting to be saved from himself, and not.

'Suddenly my life is like a river. Taking me places I don't want to go' I think this refers to the bad experiences he had as a young adult, Anselmo's illness and subsequent death, then his mother's death. Both affected him extremely deeply.

'But like all good men who swim too well, It takes all that I have just to cry for help, Then that voice in my head tells me no'. He seems to be saying he is good at putting a face on things, hiding how he is feeling, and stopping himself from asking for help.

'Let me live my life beside the river', his beloved home Mill Cottage. I feel the healing nature of his river home is implied here.

'Take me to places where a child can grow, And then maybe the boy inside will forsake me, Maybe the child in me will just let me go' I think this refers to the child he was when these mean comments were made to him. He feels the child he was at that point, never moved on emotionally. He is stuck there. He feels if he can grow beyond that point and the closeness to the river may help with that, the boy he is inside will leave him and let him go, and he will no longer be tortured by the comments made to him. Mill Cottage is central to the hoped growth and recovery I feel, as he was so happy there.

'And I would beg to be forgiven, If I knew my sin' this is interesting, because George was very spiritual I believe. He says something very similar in 'You Have Been Loved' about Anselmo's mum: 'But she just sits and counts the hours, searching for her crime.' He seems to play with the idea that maybe suffering in life occurs because of some previous misdemeanor that the person is unaware of.