Never Tear Us Apart - INXS (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Never Tear Us Apart (INXS, 1988). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-03-28. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

Written by Andy Farriss and Michael Hutchence, "Never Tear Us Apart" was INXS' 5th top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart rising to #7 (Whitburn, 2013). Farriss explained the genesis of the song: "In 1986 I sat down on an upright piano and started working on the chords that would eventually become 'Never Tear Us Apart.' I thought it had potential and asked Michael what he thought of it. He told me he really liked it so I recorded a blues style demo for him. I gave the demo to Michael and the eventual lyric that he wrote was truly inspired. . . . It was a personal love lyric very much in the moment for him" (songfacts.com, 2022). Hutchence committed suicide on 11/22/1997 (Whitburn, 2013). At his funeral service, "Never Tear Us Apart" was played as the remaining members of INXS and Hutchence's brother, Rhett, carried his coffin out of St. Andrews Cathedral (michaelhutchence.org, 2021; songfacts.com, 2022). "In 2006 the song was voted 'Nation's Favorite Lyric' by viewers of VH1 Australia" (songfacts.com, 2022).

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Lyrics:

Don't ask me
What you know is true
Don't have to tell you
I love your precious heart

I
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart

We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears

I told you
That we could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why

I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never ever tear us apart

I
I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart

You were standing
I was there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart