“The Gift” is the first single from the 1993 album Full Moon, Dirty Hearts, by Australian rock band INXS. The song was written by Jon Farriss and Michael Hutchence.
The lyric appears to touch on the subject of war and AIDS, with the author questioning the promises made while looking at an “empty sk...
Oh, so fine
We were trying
Out of nowhere
Just in time
Let you take me
Deep down the river
Kiss the changes
That shape my life
Always
Left behind
All the tracks that
I could find
Do do do do do
All these scars are mine
I was thinking got the feeling
The gift you gave
Is gonna last forever
All the lies you find
All the truth you see
Rise and fall
But I know what's mine
Here we lie
Looking up to
Empty sky
And the promises we find
I'm not the first one
To ask why
Yeah, yeah
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
All we ever try
I was thinking
Got the feeling
The gift you gave
Is gonna last forever
I was thinking
Got the feeling
The gift you gave
Is gonna last forever
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
All these scars are mine
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
All these scars are mine
I was thinking
Got the feeling
The gift you gave
Is gonna last forever
All the lies you find
All the truth you see
Rise and fall
But I know what's mine
I was thinking
Got the feeling
The gift you gave
Is gonna last forever
All the lies you find
All the truth you see
Rise and fall
But I know what's mine
The Gift was written by Michael Hutchence & Jon Farriss.
The Gift was produced by INXS & Mark Opitz.