INXS – Never Tear Us Apart lyrics

Its a love song about finding true love with someone who many people wouldn't think you were right for! The lyric "I'd make wine from your tears" refers to the fact that even if I made you cry I'd make it up to and turn it into a good thing that's how in love the singer is with the girl, Micheal Hutchence's lyrics are nearly always about women and relationships. I don't think you really need to be a genius to understand what he writes about. I think he may have had borderline personality disorder. Obsessed with women and romance he really was alot deeper than most people give him credit for, and his lyrics should be viewed as poetry! His lyrics are up there with the best!

@ revelation:.
You know what? How about you keep your stupid Bronze Age myths to yourself? Where'd you hear that f'd up interpretation? At "Bible College"?
I personally don't need the guidance of ancient goat-herders and legalists (Paul was a lawyer, did you know that?) to tell me how to live my life.
This song is talking about love between people from different backgrounds in life. It's waaay closer to Romeo & Juliet than to the bible.

A very common theme I've come to realize runs through the spaces between song lines. It's insidious and unless a person is knowledgeable on the subject (probably by witnessing or surviving), he/she'd have never even known. I tend to be a deep thinker. I also write poetry. It doesn't make me expert. But it certainly helps when studying lyric meaning.

@Unregistered Aug. 15, 2015 you came closer than I gave credit to anyone on. The call on BPD... Close but no cigar. He's either a narcissistic PD or sociopath (AsPD). Borderlines don't actually derive pleasure from other ppls pain and suffering. BPDs just get irrationally angry and clearly he is trying to emphasize his sense of superiority and entitlement. Wine = Alcohol → Alcohol = getting drunk or good times... So if they lived for 1000 years and he made her cry, he'd then get drunk with enjoyment from her pain.

To see if you can follow my logic consider the intentional stutter in the chorus."I... I was standing/you were there." Now why would anyone put emphasis on a stutter? They wouldn't right! He's highlighting that he truly felt like he was up above everyone else including his own gf who's sitting or perhaps breathing. Maybe she's doing cartwheels. Or maybe since she seems to just be there...

Like Imma just be existing right here. You go on... Live your life. I can stay in the background. Like wtf! Anyhow, two worlds indeed. Codependents/love addicts tend to follow life long debilitating cyclic patterns of abusive or otherwise toxic relationships. They will fall in love with Narcissists/sociopaths/AsPD . What the C and N share is how their coping behavior was created and that's narcissistic parents. The C is a perpetual giver or caretaker and the N a perpetual taker.

Now go back to the beginning.
Girl: Do you even love me?
Him: Don't ask me what you know is true <He doesn't love her but doesn't want to tell her yet because she's still useful to him. He can skirt the issue without actually lying>
Don't have to tell you <almost patranizing, I don't have to tell you and you won't do a thing about it>
I love your precious heart <she is not her heart. Her heart is part of her. He just objectified her. But also two birds with one stone in this line. Give her a compliment, some women eat em up, and she'll be so distracted she'll go other the argument