‘Men and Women’ is the final track on INXS’ 1992 album Welcome to Wherever You Are. This was the band’s fifth straight Platinum album in the United States (and their last).
The album fared a little bit worse in the band’s native Australia, where it achieved Gold status and broke a streak of five straight Platinum albums there.
After 1987’s smash hit Kick, this is the INXS album I know best. I listened to it a lot the summer and fall of 1992, a year I’ve written about a lot on the blog.
Following Welcome to Wherever You Are, INXS released two poorly received albums and then suffered the death of frontman Michael Hutchence. The band released an album with new lead singer J.D. Fortune in 2005, plus a Hutchence tribute record in 2010, but hasn’t released any new material since.
Turn around what has been done
I was just like a child
With my eyes wide open
History and any cause
And my eyes are still open
But my mouth my mouth is shut
I’m closing off the lies
Making my own mind up
When I can I will
How many dirty little secrets
Were kept behind my back?
Men and women
Men and women
Men and women
Giving each other the sham
I don’t see
How I can turn around what has been done
I was just like a child
With my eyes wide open
Hungry at any cost
Now my eyes are still open
But my mouth my mouth is shut
I’m closing out the lies and promises
Men and women
Men and women
Men and women
Giving me the sham
Giving me the sham
Giving me the sham
Men and women
Men and women
Giving me the sham
Men and women
Men and women
Giving me the sham
Meet Me In Montauk 
My interest in INXS had waned by the time this album came out. Based on today’s song, I’m not sure I missed out on all that much.