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INXS

Mediate

Release date: 19th October 1987

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"Mediate" is a track by INXS, from the album Kick, released 19th October 1987. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about INXS.

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Lyrics

Mediate

Hallucinate, desegregate

Mediate, alleviate

Try not to hate, love your mate

Don't suffocate on your own hate

Designate your love as fate

A one-world state as human freight

The number eight, a white black state

A gentle trait, the broken crate

A heavy weight or just too late

Like pretty Kate has sex ornate

Now devastate, appreciate

Depreciate, fabricate

Emulate, the truth dilate

Special date, the animal we ate

Guilt debate, the edge serrate

A better rate, the youth irate

Deliberate, fascinate

Deviate, reinstate

Liberate to moderate

Recreate or detonate

Annihilate, atomic fate

Mediate, clear the state

Activate, now radiate

A perfect state, food on plate

Gravitate, the Earth's own weight

Designate your love as fate

At ninety-eight we all rotate

Hallucinate, desegregate

Mediate, alleviate

Try not to hate, love your mate

Don't suffocate on your own hate

Designate your love as fate

A one-world state as human freight

The number eight, a white black state

A gentle trait, the broken crate

A heavy weight or just too late

Like pretty Kate has sex ornate

Now devastate, appreciate

Depreciate, fabricate

Emulate, the truth dilate

Special date, the animals we ate

Guilt debate, the edge serrate

A better rate, the youth irate

Deliberate, fascinate

Deviate and reinstate

Liberate, to liberate, liberate...

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Track details

From Kick

1987
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Kick
Kick
INXS
2nd October 1987
Release year
1987
  1. —Wild Life
  2. —Guns In The Sky
  3. —Mediate
  4. —Calling All Nations
  5. —Kick
  6. —The Trap
  7. —Different World
  8. —Jesus Was A Man
  9. —Tiny Daggers

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2011
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2005

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