One of my favorite songs from Patience!



In my house there's a circle, where the life comes in
From the stars to my home, down through the stone,
I could have been so alone,
Without my precious box
Have I a family? I guess not
I've never seen a lot of beauty
In my life.

Well in your house there are servants, and the lights all dim
Such a beautiful home, your agent's on the phone, they never
leave you alone
The party never stops!
You say that's fantasy, I say "So what, I need a little beauty..."

So let me in,
You know you've kind of got under my skin
You know we never see a lot of the action round here
My dear
You may want to strip again

And you look so fine in your Gucci suit
And you're making more money than your daddy
could have imagined
But people can go out of fashion, honey, yeah, any time

So take that picture, stop acting so dumb
Don't you know that the moment will come
I will find someone like you
But with something extra, I'm sorry baby
I don't know why
I don't know why that is

The systematic breakdown of my community
You know I hate my job, I try to save but God
There's just never enough
Switch on, the pressure - stops
You know the one for me, she's on Fox
And she's a little beauty...

Give me your life, give me your life, I want it
Because lately, it's so freezing out here
(This side of the glass, life keeps kicking my ass)
In so many ways, but you make it good
Made me the kind of happy that my baby never could
(This side of the glass...)

So take that picture, stop acting so dumb
Don't you know that the moment will come
I will find someone like you
But with something extra, I'm so sorry baby
I don't know why
I don't know why that is

Precious keeps me company
Keeps me from being alone

Because no-one comes in the morning
No-one comes in the evening time
I'd sit and wait for the phone to ring
I could be waiting my whole damn life

So sick of the same old faces
In this street, where nobody talks to me
And the funny side of the situation is
I don't care, I'll always be there

When you come down from the sky
And make yourself at home
In my house

Because these days it's the money the money
The money, honey, or your life
I said don't you know you can't have both

Stop acting so dumb
The moment will come
I will find someone like you
Something extra, (always happens baby to me) sorry baby
I don't know why (something)
Said I don't know why that is

You may want to strip again
You may want to let me in
You may want to sacrifice
More than you think is fair or right

You may want to think again
You may want to watch your friends
You may want to change your mind
You may wish you could turn back time.

i never quite understood. is this a song about a television?

IstenSzek said:

About a tongue box...like in the movie Barbarella

*Vanessa Bartholomew*

Love this song. It might be the best on the album. And it just came up on my shuffle about an hour ago.

MikeMatronik said:

LOVE LOVE LOVE this song!!! My favorite on the album by a mile!

LOVE it. of all the uptempo tracks, it's by far the best.

It's a great song, but I prefer "Flawless."

I always think this is about a lonely, poor guy watching some programme like MTV Cribs ''give me your life, I want it''.....and the tv is all he has to keep him company....He performed it live a couple of times on 25Live tour...but not when I saw him ....his harmonies sound very like bee gees in the part that goes ''down from the skkkkyy''

I always HATED that song so much! i still do... it's one of teh reasons I dislike Patience.
He used to have straight forward, well-structured melodies but this songs... it's too long with no real melody. it also a pretty lousy dance track. I can'st stand it.
Flawless is better, especially LIVE it was, well, flawless, but it's not very creative. He used a full song to sing some lines over it.

i don't want to be that mean but believe me ... i was SO SO SO dissapointed by Patience and him...

I was also disappointed with Patience on the whole....'amazing' seemed dated when it was released, works much better live though....some tracks are unlistenable : 'cars and trains', 'freeek', 'american angel' and 'please send me someone to love' are some of his weakest songs ever. On 'through' he sounds like a whinging rich celbrity.Even at the interval on recent tour the video to 'john and elvis are dead' was played and one long time fan who has travelled all over europe to see him and I had just met said 'i hate that song !'

I was listening to a forgotten gem of his from Wham!'s first album last night called 'nothing looks the same in the light' and it is better than all the songs above.

peppeken said:

"Freek!" is hot! Patience isn't as good as the first 3 albums, but I think it's solid.


Perhaps. OTOH, everything on that album save "Nothing Looks the Same in the Light" and "Club Tropicana" accounts for the majority of his sub-par material IMO.

well, yeah. words can't tell how dissapointed I was with Patience. Because, you gotta know, his first three solo albums... I think they're perfect. EVERY song, every note...
but when I listentn the first tiem to Patience... I HATE the title track. it's soo boring! It has no real melody to me. As if he would improvise something in front of the mic.
Amazing was one of the better songs but yeah it was dated. Like all teh dance tracks on Patience were boring, bad or dated.
Freeek is awful!
J&EAD... would have been better without that Aaaaaah all the time!
I only like Amazing, Please Send Me Someone, Round Here...

somehow I disliked the whole producion.

well, the three nbewest sonsg from 2006... I never could stand "An Easier Affair" it's soo bad!
This Is Not Real Love I learned to like. Understand is simpyl boring!

I'm really dissapointed with his "latest" music

BUT live he is sooo amazinG!!!

i guess people were so disappointed with patience because they
had been waiting for a new album for so long and came to xpect
way more than what was eventually released.

as an album, i like it. i think it's cohesive and it has nice
enough songs on it. nothing spectacular but certainly a good,
solid disc of songs that all blend very well.

if he'd been releasing an album every 2 years since "faith", i
guess his music would be 'rated' very differently but since he
only puts on an album or a handfull of songs every once in a
blue moon, people tend to over analyse them imo.

like with prince, you get planet earth and it's just crap
but at least you know that you'll have 2 or 3 strong songs on
there to tie you over until the next album is released within
something like 12 months.

the one thing i did find very disturbing was the fact that
he included both "freeek" and "shoot the dog" on the album
since they had been released so long before.

he should have kept them off. they would have been great,
fleshing out some future hits or singles collection but an
artist of gm's magnitude could have come up with two more
good solid cuts to place on his new album.

it made the whole thing feel like he was scraping together
every last idea or left over he had to compile the album.

so so so so so so ghey yall.

Ghey!


Ghey yall.



ghey ghey ghey!














ghey.

I really like Patience.

GangstaFam said:

in my own 'beating a dead horse with a stick'/'beating around the bush'
sort of way, that's what i tried to say too, although it took me about
50 lines to say it

peppeken said:

Cars And Trains?! What? That's practically the best song on there!


But overall, I'm not a big fan of that album. After such a long wait, it doesn't really deliver. Or maybe it's just too long.

Precious Box is one of my favourite George Michael songs!!

I really like Patience, I think it is an excellent album.

ps. I hope George brings his tour to Australia.

Hey I dig it but to each his own.