Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning (Unplugged)

'Beds are Burning' lyrics:

Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent now
To pay our share

Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

The time has come
To say fair's fair
To pay the rent now
To pay our share
The time has come
A fact's a fact
It belongs to them
We're gonna give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Midnight
• Oil
• Beds
• are
• Burning
• live

[SayByeAndGetHome]

The chorus is the most awsum part of the song

[storminnorman92]

this is vid actually has 0 dislikes...there is hope for humanity after all

[8430windycity]

GET THE MESSAGE

[bpiscaer]

this song, together with Dead Heart should wake us up and start action against the greedy establishment (with is not the same as the wealthy - every sparrow is a bird but not every bird is a sparrow). Occupy whatever is like the 68 movement, no real solution, we need leaders and action

[donaldjr1969]

@storminnorman92 :Whoops, looks like you spoke too soon... :(

[m52000]

gonna listen to more of this unplugged concert!!!

[izak1992]

HOW CAN WE?!?!! :D

[robskee7011]

AAAhhhhh where did the 80's go, we need it now

[TheVechto]

for 2 ignorant ppl....thumb down is not download button....

[B4iGo2it]

I sure wish I could have been there when they did this performance!

I never get to do anything ...

[TheSoSoAgnostic]

@AmazonaV I've had a Lesser Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (the Baretta bird) for 16 years and I always told people she had Australian roots. I REALLY am not one to get that sort of thing wrong, but that particular sulphur crested is from Indonesia. I only found out about a year ago.