Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning Lyrics

This band were 30 years ahead of their time.
This is not the time to be dismayed - this is time for REDEMPTION!

Who's listening to this song in 2000 ? :)

A dumb song with an utterly ridiculous message. This band is only second to The Bee Gees as worst Australian export ever.

Australia fires... we @ll from the same planet

sad but their beds truly are burning in 2020

January 2020✌️
Strength and courage !
For fireghters fiting forest fire 🌿

Bring back the fire breaks , imprison the arsonists, hope it rains soon, wish we could send you some of ours !

Tremenda desgracia para Australia y el mundo!!

God save Australia!

Peter Garret and Midnight Oil knew what was coming.

For all the people suffering in bush fires over east atm

Amoooooo

Hi Kel :) love you

No quiero caer de nuevo en esa tentación :c

Love this song

!Scott Morrison is SO OUT!

I pray for Terra Australis Incognita.
Admirable country
Admirable people

Aussies, are the beds really burning??? As a Yank I can't trust the media. Is the government really letting you down?

Antonio Torres yes they are!!

This song has a whole new meaning in 2020 :(

TREATY YEAH

TREATY NOW

The most american music i ve ever heard

I live in Oswaldtwistle . My aunt has land back there,bush. Anyone seen the NASA composite. Mad Max is coming, We will take you back swap you for the Scottish, Transport them to Aus you lot can have the Scots , They get rid of the rain, you get rid of the fires. Alcohol the Aboriginals might find they have a liken for Buckfast and ginger wigs, the Scots can stay on the dole, pised out there heads. See Gordun Browns downfall ,Hitler rants

The beds and lands will burning like hell.

Pray for Australia! #prayaustralia

Really is 45 degrees

Finally I know this song name

What a coincidence 😭

Beds ARE burning, the sky is covered with smoke. We need rain, we need healing. Our country is being destroyed, lives are being taken, businesses have been ruined, homes have been burnt and Animals are going extinct. How scary is this? Please pray for our country <3

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Such a long time ago ....this was one of my favorite songs in the 80s....creativity at it's best...

When the song is about Aboriginal land rights but the Americans think it's about climate change 🤦‍♂️

I’m American and I’m aware this song is specifically about the Pintupi, not climate change. I wish people would stop speaking about others as a collective, as if we have some kind of hive mind. “Americans think...”. NO, WE DON’T!!!

@I’m Not A Gamer I was talking about the other comments. I know how you feel because as a Christian I always get called a racist pig and a pedophile. Sorry anyway.

Shrimp on the barbie anyone???

goooood the soun

❤️🇦🇺2020❤️

Zajebiście !!!

ta pas compris icgh c moi

Pray for Australia everybody💪🏽✌🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Prophetic, no?

And then it happened...

Rien de plus vrai!

跑下來

Ahhh you really need to look into the historics of this song... Goes back a long wayyyyyy...

Someane on January of 2020?

The aboriginies are going to murder thousands of camels for drinking too much water. Help the camels and all the wildlife

Kangaroos are burning.

Australia esta ardiendo, aunque digan q es una gran nacion prospera, no lo es, porq una nacion prospera, previene la masacre de la naturaleza y ecologica ,q esta sucediendo ahora , al igual q muchos paises ,no quisieron invertir en la prevencion. Seria importante saber el grado de corrupcion politica de australia...

Prayers for rain In Australia 🇦🇺 🐨🦇🦡🦘🌲🐀🌳🌿☔️☔️☔️ ❤️🙏🏻☔️🔥 praying for all of 🇦🇺

They always knew ...

Sometimes,the fire can (unfortunately rather in a violent way) purifie and move the collective consiousness, to an upper level .Only if millions of life are gone and our beds are burning, might be that we can change our attitude, stay strong and don't loose your faith and hope! All the world is connecting with you and Australia!

Who knew their song was ahead of it's time in 2020?

Never been so accurate than now

crying for half a billion of those innocents dead already,, and many more injured or in shock, with no other option but to stare and suffer.
They should be our concern, they did not do a single thing in "our" world that make them deserve whatsoever.
As usual: humans fuck up, and the weakest are left to endure our mess.
My two cents...
"Happy" ,"new" year to those who care.

Brazil cries for Straya :(

à l'ordre du jour plus encore aujourd'hui #AustraliaBurning

And instead of preventing it, people are just sitting caring about money, prostitutes and drugs.

All the climate change denial can be easily refuted. All the excuses are tired, old, and thoroughly debunked. Unfortunately humans are generally extremely good at being ignorant on purpose and this means we'll probably go extinct.

people think I'm so negative when I say the EXACT SAME THING !!!

Anyone in 2020 amazed at how this song has been resignified?

Aussies, time to revolt, give them hell.

How do we sleep when our beds are burning whaaaat prayers for Australie can't we change it for help for Australie .....hands and money ,material

Very actually

An early warning from Midnight Oil that was completely ignored. Worse, the Australian government is still ignoring it as the country burns to the ground.

The song had zero to do with wildfires.

@batvette = You completely missed it, apparently.

it started as a song for the 1st Aussies who got screwed like the Native Americans in the USA...but now...too poignant...Beds...Homes... Wildlife are burning...…...

What talent cant get my voice to do that

Please pray for Australia 2019/2020 #AustraliaIsBurning

sorry,helping hands and money

This is what's up.

J'ai une petite pensée pour Peter Garrett qui, après 40 années d'activisme écologique (leader de l' ''Australian Conservation Foundation'', membre du conseil international de Greenpeace, puis ministre de l'environnement de 2007 à 2010), voit sa chanson-phare prendre soudain une dimension autrement plus tragique..
Or, elle l'était déjà: la mère du chanteur a péri dans un incendie lorsqu'il était enfant.. Bien plus tard, lorsque Devenu ministre, il tentât d'imposer un nouveau genre de maisons à panneaux solaires. Projet avorté, les prototypes ayant fini dévorés par les flammes avec les ouvriers qui s'y trouvaient..

Cet homme est continuellement rappelé par le feu.

C'est sans doute pourquoi la musique de Midnight Oil a toujours déployé une urgence incandescente qui reste cruellement d'actualité..

A Austrália está queimando! Nunca essa música foi tão alarmante. Midnight Oil vive!!!

Sim, sempre presente!!!

linda genial divinal tenho 75 anos que saudades meu deus

2020 ??

Praying for you Oz 🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧🌧💧

PROPHETIC! The lyrics are UNREAL. How the hell did these guys know?

Climate change cultists incoming!

Never knew the band members were time travelers.

The Govt have been ignoring Australians for so long, we protested, shouted, even sang and now look....we are burning while they are raking in money.

Where's Morrison on this
Burn 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I didn't know Woody Harrelson had battled cancer.

Everybody needs to accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. REPENT NOW!!

*2020 Summer Australia is burning*

I'm crying for all of Australia whenever seeing this video in 2020.

Bless you -it's terrible to watch it burn on the news . Best wishes and love from Old South Wales UK !

Not only are beds burning but so is Wallwangagoogagoo, Diggeridanglidoo and Gandangagoogoogachookoaliachoofoogagong

its not just this song! peter garrett has been actively urging the country to do something drastic for the environment and was warning them up until May 2019! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/peter-garrett-urges-bill-shorten-to-declare-climate-emergency-if-labor-wins

so australia now pay the rent ..

i was thinking 2009 had much better quality video and ausies must got the memo. but googled it song released 1987 :X but...............
R.I.P!

press F for koala beds

One bitch in then the next, In an Out 2020

To everyone Down Under:

You're not alone. The entire World's attention is on YOU, right now at THIS very minute...and every minute there after- even with everything scary and negative going on right now, people across The World are all taking the time out of their "busy day" to say true, heartfelt prayers for Your safety and for the safety of Your property.
We are all very worried, and honestly a bit shocked at the seriousness of it all. The destructive force of these Fires is absolutely terrifying.
May God bless, and we are sending to you all our most sacred, deep, heartfelt prayers to you, from thousands of miles away.

Sorry to break it to you but praying that a fire is gonna go out won't work... dumping water on it will. :)

Karma ...while the fires burn bitches!

Very timely sad song today...

Came here because of the fires in Australia reminded me of this song. Forgot about the drummer playing the kettle and the sweet dance moves of the singer.

Australia, sending you all my love and support. I've donated to a few brilliant organisations, including https://www.aussieark.org.au/one-off-donation/ please do what you can, and do your research 💔

THANK YOU SO MUCH CATE ❤💙💚💛💜

Donate money to Australia, as a community we can show love and support to these people. Stay Strong Australia, You will soon recover💪💪💪❤❤❤❤

It might be Australian to grab this.

Music from Australia, which is now suffering many burnings!

This music is very beautiful!

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

Easy. Close your eyes.

32 ans après la sortie ce titre, nous y sommes. La Terre brûle. Mais pour les libéraux, l'effondrement du vivant est encore et toujours une merveilleuse opportunité pour générer de la croissance. Ecosocialisme ou barbarie.

My heart goes out to the Aussies with the current circumstances.....

Excelente Buenisimo !!!

No climate change?? Yah, there was never a "SuperStorm" formed from 3 systems stretching the entire East coast, no shrinking ice caps, no glaciers falling into the seas, no lands showing in countries that were once always covered in ice (was that part of Greenland or Iceland … can't remember), not an entire continent on fire, no salmon dying in Alaska from temp change, I guess the painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River wasn't real that was iced over (it hasn't iced over for over 100 years since), the kids still get sleds every year for xmas because there are still white Christmas's to count on in Jersey, I never got a tan in March in Alabama for years in the 80's, kids in South Jersey skate on the lakes all of the time playing hockey every winter, a whole continent is on fire, Jesus God, do I need to go on?? Maybe people can reply to this comment with further hard core examples.

Rebecca Stout People stop believing BigOil BS talking points alteady gdi.

How PROPHETIC that this was done in Australia and by an Australian artist. Yah, I should've never come here I guess. I love the song anyway, always have. I thought coming here would be, I don't know, help me. But now I'm crying from seeing the lands on the video in comparison to seeing packs of burned kangaroos running around, burnt Koalas, whole herds of horses laying burned and dead in empty creeks. Sigh.

The song is about Aboriginal abuse, neglect and the need of recognition.

@Joshua Ross Partridge It's about climate change I thought... it's very literal.

@Joshua Ross Partridge Hey thanks so much for telling me. I just looked it all up and read up about the history of it all. The song refers to so much more than if it were about climate change. I love this song and now I can listen to it without being depressed over the fires, etc. The real meaning is tragic and awful... but it's something we can improve. Make change. While climate change is what it is. There is no going back.

@Rebecca Stout No problem. While the song has the current meaning of the massive bushfire's, you have to take the song in it's context of 1981. Global warming was not something recognized by the public, but the issue of native rights was a big, prominent issue at the time.

@Joshua Ross Partridge thanks again. Very cool if you to take the time to explain

Australia is raining...