My Gen X Playlist: Don’t Change – INXS

This feels like a prompt we’ve done a few times, maybe just repackaged in a slightly different way. I’ll use this as a get out of jail for free card and just play a song.

INXS was a great 80’s band. Don’t Change was released in 1982. When this song came on, I always tended to increase the volume just a little bit higher.

Resolution of happiness

I’ve always liked when this line was belted out in the song. Maybe it’s the way they draw each syllable out separately. I find myself singing this line out loud, syllable by syllable. Resolution of happiness – what a cool line.

Lead Singer Michael Hutchence and keyboard player Andrew Farriss created this song in 1982 . . . The song has a defiant feel, with Hutchence warding off negativity. Farriss offered this explanation: “Everything Changes, or does it? Nothing lasts forever and yet most of us at some point in our lives want it to.”

– Songfacts

God I loved this band, when I was a kid I had the hugest crush on this girl across the street who was like 3 years older than me and her room was full of INXS posters. I use to sing this song to her and she would giggle and say “you’re cute”, but I wasn’t trying to be cute, I was trying so hard to be romantic. Years later we reconnected and today she’s my wife and we danced to this song at our wedding and I play this song for our two baby girls. Music bounds us all together, makes us cry, makes us love, rock… don’t change.

– YouTube comment starwinksbackfromtheskypit6790

Talk about resolution of happiness. What a great story.

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I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all direction
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark
For too long

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

I found a love I had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message received loud and clear

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Things have been dark for too long

Don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me