The Stairs

Jon Farris/Michael Hutchence (INXS)

In a room above a busy street
The echoes of a life

the fragments and the accidents
Separated by incidents


Listened to by the walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements

Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs


The nature of your tragedy
Is chained around your neck

Do you lead or are you led
Are U sure that you don't care?

There are reasons here to give your life
And follow in your way

The passion lives to keep your faith
Though all are different all are great

Climbing as we fall
We dare to hold on to our fate

And steal away our destiny
To catch ourselves with quiet grace

Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs

Listened to by the walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements

RIP MKH
J

Do you lead or are you lead?
Are you sure that you don't care?
are very appropriate statements even today.
That song could've been written today!
I can see why you like INXS so much.
I only know a couple of their songs
and don't really know their lyrics,
but when I read the lyrics you posted
it shows that the writer of the song
FELT the words he wrote.
I just may check out an INXS CD sometime.
Thanks for posting this.
Jim

Let me know Jimi I'll show you what to get - Michael, his lyrics and his
music have gotten me through alot of shit. God and Michael our my main
sources of inspiration.

There are reasons here to give your life and follow in your way, the
passion lives to keep your faith...all are different all are great.....

J