![]() But even in what seems like end times, there are still some small pleasures to be had, some minor miracles in all of our lives that keep us “choosing life” (as we are implored to do by the Katharine Hamnett shirt that Michael famously wore in Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” video). I can think of few people other than a real-estate-mogul-turned-reality-tv-star-turned-demagogue who would call 2016 a successful year. The world’s astounding woundedness does seem, at least to me, more apparent now than ever. 1, at the time of its release, “Michael offers the healing passage of time as the only balm for physical and emotional hunger, poverty, hypocrisy, and hatred.” He summed up the song as “a distraught look at the world’s astounding woundedness.” James Hunter wrote of “Praying for Time” in his Rolling Stone review of Listen Without Prejudice Vol. They show Michael diving deeper than he had on his earlier material with Wham! and from his first solo album, Faith-exploring existential dreads, navigating the prickly problems of identity, love, and time, in the casing of what had long been thought of as the most disposable of art forms: pop music. “The song,” according to its creator, “was just my idea of trying to figure out why it’s so hard for people to be good to each other.” Many of the songs on Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 “means more now than ever.” It’s not difficult to see what Corden means when you listen to the lyrics: “It’s hard to love, there’s so much to hate / Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of / And the wounded skies above say it’s much too late / Well maybe we should all be praying for time.” Late night talk show host James Corden tweeted out on Christmas that the message in George Michael’s “Praying for Time” from his 1990 masterpiece Listen Without Prejudice Vol. ![]() ![]() We live amongst our mistakes, and we count their bones. ![]() ![]() And the Wounded Skies Above Say It’s Much Too Late ![]()
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