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Written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, 'Devil Inside' arrives as a study in moral ambiguity dressed in propulsive rock. The song sketches a parade of figures, each driven by appetite or pride, each harbouring some version of the same impulse toward transgression. Words become weapons; desire becomes a kind of hunger. The refrain insists that this capacity for wrongdoing lives in all of us, not as exception but as rule. The track builds its case through repetition and momentum rather than argument. A woman, a man, the world itself, each introduced with the same rhythmic setup and the same implication: that civilisation is a thin skin over something wilder. The production sits somewhere between restraint and urgency, letting the hook do its work without apology. It is a song about human nature that trusts the listener to draw their own conclusions about what that nature means.
"Devil Inside" is a single by INXS, released 1987. Full lyrics are available below.
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