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Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning
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“Beds Are Burning” is a 1987 single by Midnight Oil, released as the opening track of the sixth studio album Diesel and Dust. It is one of the band’s most internationally best
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Elley Duhé & Whethan – MIDNIGHT OIL
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[Chorus] / But it's almost after midnight / Couldn't love me 'til the sunrise / Stay up, we burnin' the midnight oil / We burnin' the midnight oil / We burnin' the midnight oil / I
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Petra – Midnight Oil
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Based on Matthew 25:1-13 / We wait since the day He ascended / He said He would come again / Some think it will be such a long time / Some they the know just when / We live like
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Tommee Profitt & Fleurie – Midnight Oil
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[Verse 1] / I want a love that can take me down / Show me up and cross off all my doubts / I want a fire and a steady man / Come on, show me if your love can / [Verse 2] / Write my
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Chartreuse – Midnight Oil
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[Verse 1: Michael Wagstaff with Harriet Wilson] / For a neighbour, I could do it for free / Milk, sugar, bad company / Well, I'm a young man, I just wanna lend a hand / I could fix
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The Alchemist (Ft. Jay Worthy & Larry June) – Midnight Oil
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[Intro] / All you do is just make up your mind / But you gotta do something / The key to life is your attitude / Make sure you're doin' what you wanna do / Your goals can unfold
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Midnight Oil – Power and the Passion
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People wasting away / In paradise / Going backwards, once in a while / Taking your time, give it a try / What do you believe, what do you believe / What do you believe is true
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Midnight Oil – The Dead Heart
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We don't serve your country / Don't serve your king / Know your custom, don't speak your tongue / White man came took everyone / We don't serve your country / We don't serve your
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Midnight Oil – Whoah
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The lord is my temple / God is by my side / You pay rates on that temple / Build materials at the side / He gives reasons / To get through the day / He doesn't have rinse action
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Barbara Mandrell – Midnight Oil
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That call was from the office and I guess I'll have to burn the midnight oil again / And hon' you know how much the boss depends on me to lend a helping hand / I watch him in the
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Midnight Oil – Armistice Day
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You're watching people fighting, you're watching people losing / On Armistice Day / The watchers do the wincing, reporters so convincing / But the TV never lies / I went looking
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Midnight Oil – Truganini
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There's a road train going nowhere / Roads are cut, lines are down / We'll be staying at the Roma bar / Till that monsoon passes on / The backbone of this country's broken / The
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Midnight Oil – Sleep
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So you've got the blues / The evening wore out your shoes / To a shuffling beat / It's a colourful crowd / Spraycan information / Cover the lonely station / Checkpoint for the
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Thomm Jutz (Ft. Peter Cronin) – Burning The Midnight Oil
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[Intro] / Burning the midnight oil again / Sitting out here listening to the wind / I just called to tell you that I miss you my old friend / Burning the midnight oil again / [
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Phillips, Craig & Dean – Midnight Oil
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Mamma always got up early / And she never went to bed 'til late / Yet, I never heard her complaining / About her family of eight / There were times she should have been sleeping
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Midnight Oil – Bullroarer
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In the desert in the dry / Before the breaking of the rain / The temperature in the shade / Had reached a hundred and ten again / In the desert in the dry / On the overland
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Midnight Oil – Hercules
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My life is a valuable thing / I want to keep it that way, I won't cry / My life's such a valuable thing / Some things don't fade away, I don't mind / We give the best we can give
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Tall Heights – Midnight Oil
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[Verse 1] / I got pretty colors for your actions / I will lay them down before you / I will send them to you when I can / [Chorus] / Oh, up, love, save / Wait for me, desperate
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Midnight Oil – Rising Seas
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[Intro] / Every child put down your toys / And come inside to sleep / We have to look you in the eye and say we sold you cheap / Let's confess we did not act / With serious urgency
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Midnight Oil (Ft. Crash Vegas, Daniel Lanois, Hothouse Flowers & The Tragically Hip) – Land
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They buried me up to my knees in the cold December ground / The cold came up to get me / Blinding me in my land / Land... / In my land / Land... / I was landed on this moment
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Midnight Oil – Forgotten Years
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[Verse 1] / Few of the sins of the father / Are visited upon the son / Hearts have been hard / Hands have been clenched in a fist too long / [Verse 2] / Our sons need never be
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Midnight Oil – Sometimes
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I know that the sunset empire shudders and shakes / I know there's a floodgate and a raging river / I say the silence of the ribbons of iron and steel / I say hear the punch drunk
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Midnight Oil – Dust
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It's 2 am in Town Hall Station / Black walls and sleeping drunks / Are bad companions / Ice is there / Fear is there / Everyone is nowhere there's too much of nothing / Take me
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Midnight Oil – Dreamworld
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The Breakfast Creek Hotel is up for sale / The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail / So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines / No amount of make believe can help
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Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mine
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The song was based on the real-life experiences of workers at the Wittenoom asbestos mines who contracted various asbestos-related diseases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofrqm6-
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Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – Burning the Midnight Oil
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[Verse 1] / Here we sit lookin' at each other / Seems we're at a loss of what to say / Ties bind us both to someone else / We don't want to hurt, but we must break away / [Chorus
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Midnight Oil – Read About It
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The rich get richer / The poor get the picture / The bombs never hit you when you're down so low / Some got pollution / Some revolution / There must be some solution but I just don
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Midnight Oil – Short Memory
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Short Memory, written by Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford, Robert Hirst, James Moginie and Peter Garrett.
Short Memory is about war and imperialism. And the mistakes many people make
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Midnight Oil – Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
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From the red dust north of Dalmore Downs / Sharman's tents roll into town / Twelve will face the auctioneer / Sharman's Boxers stand their ground / Their days are darker than your
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Midnight Oil – Run by Night
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I'm on the whiskey flying, and I'll run by night / I'm on the whiskey running, and I'll run by night / I'm on the winter cycle, shut my eyes to the bite / I'm on the winter cycle
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Campusanis – Burning The Midnight Oil
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[Intro] / Burning the midnight oil again / Sitting out here listening to the wind / I just called to tell you that I miss you my old friend / Burning the midnight oil again / [
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Midnight Oil – Best of Both Worlds
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You say times are tough / We've got the best of both worlds here / Things are rough / We've got the best of both worlds here / Times are tough / We've got the best of both worlds
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Midnight Oil – Harrisburg
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The empire rings / The umpire's not laughing / The President's resented / The Ambassador's a night club / You cannot get it out / It's stuff you cannot taste or see / It's stuff
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Midnight Oil – US Forces
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U.S. forces give the nod / It's a setback for your country / Bombs and trenches all in rows / Bombs and threats still ask for more / Divided world the CIA / Who controls the issue
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Midnight Oil – E-Beat
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There is a place we're coming to / It is not green it is not blue / I hope that you understand / The devil was a dancing on the old foreshore / Hitting up on bright lights and the
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Midnight Oil – Warakurna
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There is enough for everyone / In Redfern as there is in Alice / This is not the Buckingham Palace / This is the crown land / This is the brown land / This is not our land / Some
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Midnight Oil – Blossom and Blood
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Verse 1 / You the mothers who sent your sons / Wipe away your tears / For those who fought and those who fell / Become our sons as well / You the warriors with your words / Throw
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