INXS Songs - Need You Tonight Lyrics

INXS - Need You Tonight

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Album: Kick
Released: 1987

Need You Tonight Lyrics

Come over here

All you got is this moment
The twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does yeah that's okay

So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind

I Need You Tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl
That makes me sweat

How do you feel
I'm lonely
What do you think
Can't take it all
What ya gonna do
Gonna live my life

So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind

I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you girl
That makes me sweat

So how do you feel
I'm lonely
What do you think
Can't think at all
Whatcha gonna do
Gonna live my life

So how do you feel
I'm lonely
What do you think
Can't think at all
Whatcha gonna do
Gonna live my life

So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know

So slide over here
And give me a moment
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know

You're one of my kind

Writer/s: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE, ANDREW FARRISS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Need You Tonight

This was a throwaway song that became INXS' biggest hit. Andrew Farriss came up with the riff, and Michael Hutchence quickly added some lustful lyrics.

Farriss had the idea for the riff for this song while waiting for a taxi to take him to the airport. He asked the taxi driver to wait for a couple of minutes as he'd left something behind in the motel. He kept the unfortunate taxi driver waiting for an hour while he quickly recorded the riff and eventually returned to a very frustrated driver with a tape.

This was featured in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly.

Kick is the best-selling INXS album, selling more than 7 million copies in the US alone. Other US Top 10 hits include "Devil Inside," "New Sensation" and "Never Tear Us Apart."

Bonnie Raitt covered this song in 2016 for her album Dig In Deep. She's a big fan of the band, and says singing this "feels exactly as sexy as it sounds."