Beds Are Burning

How do we know that we're not all in a giant's fingernail? How do we know that we're not in the grit? I just imagine

you getting high and just reciting the lyrics to Beds Are Burning by Midnight

Oil.

I've been studying a stopwatch for how long it would take before Moynihan started indulging in offensive and degrading anti-Australian bigotry.

I'm going to stay on the same continent.

And I only know of one track this band had chart at all in the US, which was Beds Are Burning.

Midnight Oil, yeah.

Midnight Oil.

Because I remember seeing Midnight Oil on the marquee on Sunset Boulevard and being like, oh my God, I know them.

They do that Power and the Passion.

Then I saw them at the Orpheum three years later on the tour for The Beds Are Burning Tour is a diesel and dust.

I think it's the

You know the hit song.

It's called Beds Are Burning.

How can you sleep when the beds are burning? Yeah, I've heard that song before.

It

doesn't ring a bell.

Yeah.

I got Midnight Oil beds are burning.

I didn't get him burning down the house.

I didn't get any.

Junker G, I'll go back to you.

You're about to play Midnight Oil and Beds Are Burning for us.

Oh, man, that just takes me back to my, you know, adolescent days and seeing, you know, Uncle Peter Garrett there doing that, you know, that famous shake of that leg there.

Bit different to the way that we do that, that shake a leg and stuff.

The Rumpy Band, George Rumbu and, you know, Carlos Stone, all these other deadly bands.

But because these white fellas from back in the day were carrying this, that spear, you know, it just took the message a bit further than, you know, where our voices can take it.

Where the river broke The blood wood and the desert oak Holding wrecks and boiling diesels Steaming 45 degrees The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent Can we dance when our earth is burning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

It's Midnight Oil and beds are burning.

Black leather, cheap leather, you know it's the only thing that makes you look better.

He got the whole world at his feet He got a beast in rich walking Fire in his red But you know that it don't impress me Black leather, cheap leather You know it's the only thing That makes you look better Black leather, cheap leather You know it's the only thing That makes you look better She's an acid wash queen Together they make a mean team So out of style you could call this in You know it ain't enough for me You know that it don't impress me Black leather, cheap leather You know it's the only thing That makes you look better Black leather, cheap leather You know it's the only thing Pleasure, cheap pleasure, you know it's the only thing that makes you The river broke The blood wood and the desert oak Holding wrecks and boiling diesels Steaming 45 degrees The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent when our earth is burning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? The time has come to say fair's fair, to pay the rent now.

The time has come.

That's when our earth is turning How do we sleep while our beds are burning To pay the rent now

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Four, Cold Chisel, East.

Number five, Midnight Oil, Diesel and Dust, which is the Beds Are Burning album that's from.

So I get all those.

But interestingly, in excess, the only other album that made it in the top 100 was The Swing at 32.

A few others come to mind.

The Midnight Oil, if you remember, Beds Are Burning.

Bald guy from Australia.

And I looked at this.