FAITH - with Ms Dynamite at the Brit Awards
We’ve been here before
Talk of violence and talk of war
I don’t want to see the children die no more
So I gotta make a stand
Can you hear my voice
Taking a life is only gods choice
I don’t want blood on my hands
I am a wise man
A wise man wars with words, my daddy says
A wise man lives to fight another day
And he don't wanna
See no more mothers cry
I don’t want to see no fathers die
So I gotta have faith
(George’s vocal enters) I gotta have faith
Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
Lady, I guess you heard the news today
There’s got to be a better way
You know it’s given me the blues
Maybe, we’ve got time to make it plain
People you’ve gotta get up off your knees
And say you know we really don’t want it
I don’t want it (I don't want it) I don’t want it
Before this river becomes and ocean
Of tears and fears
They think they know what they’re doing, pursuing
Me ain't gonna take that fall
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I’ve got to hope for more
Cause I gotta have faith
I gotta have faith
Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith
I gotta have faith, faith, faith
D to the Y to the - Allah we praise
D to the Y to the - Jesus will save
D to the Y to the - it’s all the same
D to the Y to the - if you want love
D to the Y to the - Allah we praise (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the - Jesus will save (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the - it’s all the same (gotta get it together)
D to the Y to the - if you want love
Before this river becomes and ocean (All you’ve got to do is have a little faith)
Of tears and fears (And all you've got to do is have faith, yeah yeah, yeah)
They think they know what they’re doing, pursuing (One love, one love)
Me ain't gonna take that fall
Well it takes a strong man baby
But I’ve got to hope for more
Cause I gotta have faith I gotta have faith Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith I gotta have faith, faith, faith
He's Also Done "Some" Interviews
Sunday:
David Frost
Tuesday:
GMTV
ITV
Channel 5 News
Wednesday:
GMTV (Phone-in)
BBC - Hard Talk
Thursday:
Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine
Friday:
Richard & Judy
If this isn't the cutest thing ever then I don't know what is!
Graham Norton
This is where it gets interesting, as George is going to perform Don McLean's "The Grave" from his 70's album "American Pie". Apparently the song will also be recorded as an anti-war special for M-TV.
Click here to hear it.
Don McLean has released the following statement:
I am proud of George Michael for standing up for life and sanity. I am delighted that he chose a song of mine to express these feelings. We must remember that the Wizard is really a cowardly old man hiding behind a curtain with a loud microphone. It takes courage and a song to pull the curtain open and expose him.
Good Luck George-
Don McLean
The Grave
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors
And the brown earth bleached white
At the edge of his gravestone
He’s gone
When the wars of our nation did beckon
The man, barely twenty, did answer the calling
Proud of the trust
That he placed in our nation
He’s gone
But eternity knows him
And it knows what we’ve done
And the rain fell like pearls
On the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown, muddy clay
Where the earth had been dry
And deep in the trench
He waited for hours
As he held to his rifle
And prayed not to die
But the silence of night
Was shattered by fire
As the guns and grenades
Blasted sharp through the air
One after another
His comrades were slaughtered
In the morgue of marines
Alone, standing there
He crouched ever lower
Ever lower, with fear
"They can’t let me die
They can’t let me die here!
I’ll cover myself
With the mud and the earth
I’ll cover myself
I know I’m not brave!
The earth, the earth
The earth is my grave."
The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors
And the brown earth bleached white
At the edge of his gravestone
He’s gone
The Following Week, Friday:
Capital FM with Foxy
George allowed Foxy to play a minute ("A bridge and a chorus") of a new song called "Precious Box".
Click here to hear it.
"Precious Box":
So let me in
You know you kinda got under my skin
You know we never see a lot of the actual you
My dear
You may want to strip again
And you look so fine in your Gucci suits
And you're making more money than your daddy could have imagined
But people can go out of fashion
Honey, yeah
Any time
Take that picture so we can slow down
Don't you know that the moment will come
How could I find someone like you
Something extra. Sorry baby
I don't know why
I don't know why that is
Top Of The Pops
"The Grave" live at TOTP for the first time in 17 years - last time was with "The Edge of Heaven" before "The Final" concert.
Click here to hear a clip.
The interview I never got ;).
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