Slide away

Yesterday, I watched the Mystify: Michael Hutchence documentary film on Netflix. It is such a sad story of a how a superstar ended his life. I was totally overwhelmed.

It is the advise of how an accident can change things permanently. A traumatic brain injury in 1992 changed his life, changed his personal relationship, and definitely changed the destiny of INXS, one of my all time favorite bands.

On the morning of 22 November 1997, Michael Hutchence, the leader and singer of the rock band INXS was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney. His death was reported by the New South Wales Coroner to be the result of suicide by hanging. In the autopsy report they found permanent areas of brain damage on his frontal lobes.

 

This song was written by Hutchence and completed by his long time friend Bono, from U2.

 

"I wanted to let it go

Just couldn't let it go

I wanted to let it go

Just couldn't let you go

 

I would catch you

(Just couldn't let you go)

I'd catch you as you fall

(Just couldn't let it go)

I would catch you

(Just couldn't let you go)

I'd catch you if I heard your call

 

But you tore a hole in space

Like a dark star, falls from grace

You burn across the sky

And I would find you wings to fly

And I would catch you

I would catch your fall

 

I just wanna slide away and come alive again"

 

youtu.be/iAzIf4NahJw

Done