Cinnie said:

I know, and I agree. But I just don't think anyone has ever written as passionate song about something that is supposed to be just platonic love. I don't think it's a valid question whether there is any innuendo or not, as it's just a piece of art/pop music - and I don't think Michael would be dumb enough to include any type of "hidden messages" about child molestation in his lyrics. But I personally find it a bit creepy that he is so "humbled" by this experience.

And that's why it's one of his most personal songs, because you can clearly see how his concept of "higher love" has replaced any experience of "standard love", and how our desires are potentially to be fulfilled in real life experiences. He thoroughly transcends his "love" into something magical and attempts to live in his own concoction. Strangely enough, the impossibility of it can easily be drawn out of even the lyrics themselves and also from the way he delivers the vocals. He needs that "magic" to justify his views on life, it's structured in his own thinking over the years. This type of "love" is something that is not morally responsible to anyone or anything, because it is in essence out of the boundaries of such thinking. For it is an ethical ideal of itself, it cannot be judged. He thinks he has reached some sort of more true, platonic as you said, stance of emotional life.

But I think there lies also a very intelligent human being underneath all the traumas and the eccentricity. He knows very well there is no magic as such, I sometimes question even his faith in God when he attempts to speak of his personal beliefs. Actually to me he sounds like an individual who has completely lost his faith on a very fundamental level, so he turns into impossibilities and contradictions instead (not to mention clichés). There he can easily live between the harsh reality and the fantasies, because from the outset he is not responsible to anyone of his chosen lifestyle. On "Speechless" he openly acknowledges its contradictory structure but chooses to live it anyway, because it's justified by a higher cause and in the end is delivered only through aesthetic means. So it doesn't even produce a proper intellectual dilemma for him.

... whoah.