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INXS turn their gaze inward on 'Original Sin', a track that frames desire and transgression through the lens of race and power. The song opens with a meditation on temptation and consequence, before pivoting to its central refrain: a call to dreamers across racial lines to wake to reality. The chorus addresses white boys and black girls, black boys and white girls in turn, each pairing met with the same exhortation to shed illusions. There is a tension at work here between the song's expansive vision of connection and its acknowledgement that such dreams, however noble, may not survive contact with the world. The production sits somewhere between funk and new wave, propulsive but controlled, allowing the lyrics room to breathe. Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence built the song around a simple but effective idea: that innocence, whether personal or collective, is a luxury that cannot last. The instrumental break lets the rhythm section drive home the point before the track circles back to its opening meditation, now weighted with the knowledge that dreams, however earnestly held, wash away.
"Original Sin (Single Edit)" is a track by INXS, from the album The Greatest Hits, released 1st April 1984. Full lyrics are available below.
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