George Michael - You Have Been Loved - Royal Opera House - Symphonica - 6.11.2011

George Michael performing "You Have Been Loved" in Royal Opera House - London - Symphonica Tour - 6.11.2011 (Album: Older, Released: 1996) George dedicated this song to Elizabeth Taylor George Michael wrote this song about his lover, Anselmo Feleppa, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1993. The beginning of the song describes Anselmo's mother, who visits his grave, while passing by the school he attended. The first chorus has Anselmo's mother saying goodbye, telling him "You have been loved." The ending chorus has Anselmo dying, telling George, "You have been loved." The line, "If I was weak, forgive me; but I was terrified," refers to the trauma George felt during Anselmo's decline in health. While an intense song about grief and death, it also involves a spiritual struggle - while Anselmo and his mother both say that God is not dead, George counters their comments, challenging God, "What's the use in pressing palms, if you [God] won't keep such love from harm? It's a cruel world. You've so much to prove." You Have Been Loved (George Michael And David Austin) She takes the back road and the lane Past the school that has not changed In all this time She thinks of when the boy was young All the battles she had won Just to give him life That man She loved that man For all his life But now we meet to take him flowers And only god knows why For what's the use in pressing palms When children fade in mother's arms It's a cruel world We've so much to lose And what we have to learn, we rarely choose So if it's god who took her son He cannot be the one living in her mind Take care my love, she said Don't think that god is dead Take care my love, she said You have been loved If i was weak, forgive me But i was terrified You brushed my eyes with angels wings, full of love The kind that makes devils cry So these days My life has changed And i'll be fine But she just sits and counts the hours Searching for her crime So what's the use of pressing palms If you won't keep such love from harm It's a cruel world You've so much to prove And heaven help the ones who wait for you Well i've no daughters, i've no sons Guess i'm the only one Living in my life Take care my love, he said Don't think that god is dead Take care my love, he said You have been loved (George Michael And David Austin)