INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence wrote the lyrics, which describe an instant connection between two people who form a bond that will last forever. Hutchence had many passionate relationships in his lifetime, many with celebrities like Kylie Minogue and Helena Christensen, but he was never married

There is a devil inside all of us, but some wear it outward, like the woman in the song "raised on leather with flesh on her mind." We also meet a man "fed on nothing but full of pride," one of the seven deadly sins. "I was on a God and the Devil phase there," INXS lead s