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There are 34 misheard song lyrics for Midnight Oil on amIright currently.

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"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
A fowl will stare upon your toes.
or
A fall will stare the potty toes.
or
A fall will stare the potty toes.
Original Lyrics:
Four wheels scare the cockatoos.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
Golden wrecks and boiling dissolves
Steam at 45 degrees.
Original Lyrics:
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in 45 degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can we dance when our love is turning?
Original Lyrics:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can we dance while the dudes are burning?
Original Lyrics:
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can we dance with our herpes burning?
Original Lyrics:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can we sleep when our pants are burning?
Original Lyrics:
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can we sleep while the babes are burning?
Original Lyrics:
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can you sleep while your bowels are churning?
Original Lyrics:
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How can you think when your pants are burning?
Original Lyrics:
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
How could we dance when I heard keys turning?
Original Lyrics:
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
Our bags are packed
Original Lyrics:
A fact's a fact
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
Out where the river broke
The bloodworth and the desert oak
Hold the Rex and butt the 'these alls'
Stealing forty five degrees.
Original Lyrics:
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The bloodwood and the desert rose
Golden wrecks and boiling designs.
Original Lyrics:
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The time has come
The safe has failed
Original Lyrics:
The time has come
to say fair's fair
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The time has come to pay the pair
How can we dance when our love is turning
How can we sleep when the bads are burning
Original Lyrics:
The time has come to say fair's fair
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The time has come to save this sphere
Original Lyrics:
The time has come to say fair's fair
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The time has come, our bags are packed
Original Lyrics:
The time has come, a fact's a fact
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The time has come
To say fair well.
Original Lyrics:
The time has come
To say fair's fair.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
The western desert lives and breathes
To fortify the rains.
Original Lyrics:
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty-five degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
Misheard Lyrics:
To pay the rent, dictatorship
Original Lyrics:
To pay the rent, to pay our share
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
And nothing's as precious as a hole in the crowd.
Original Lyrics:
And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
If I yell at night, there is a reply of blue silence.
Original Lyrics:
If I yell out at night, there's a reply of bruised silence.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
Indiana rain comes down
Original Lyrics:
In the end the rain comes down
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
Indiana rain house down
Original Lyrics:
In the end, the rain comes down.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
Somebody shave me
Original Lyrics:
Somebody save me
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
There'll be food on the table turning 'round.
Original Lyrics:
There'll be food on the table tonight.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Misheard Lyrics:
There'll be paint in your pocket tonight.
Original Lyrics:
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight.
"Blue Sky Mining"
Misheard Lyrics:
Who's going to shave me
Original Lyrics:
Who's going to save me
"Blue Sky Mining"
Misheard Lyrics:
Who's gonna shave me?
Original Lyrics:
Who's gonna save me?
"In the Valley"
Misheard Lyrics:
When my father went down,
it was a stink bomb from Hades
Original Lyrics:
When my father went down,
it was a stiff arm from hades
"Mountains Of Burma"
Misheard Lyrics:
The taco box is empty.
Original Lyrics:
The Tucker box is empty.
Does anybody know what a Tucker box is? Is it where you keep your Tuckers?
"Movers And Shakers"
Misheard Lyrics:
We can dive into distant Enema's
Our wangs could melt in the sun.
Original Lyrics:
We can dive into distant ameobas
Our wings could melt in the sun.
"U.S. Forces"
Misheard Lyrics:
You asked for forgive-uh-ness
Original Lyrics:
U.S. Forces give the nod

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Diesel and Dust album at Amazon.com

Blue Sky Mining album at Amazon.com

20,000 Watts R.S.L.: Greatest Hits album at Amazon.com

Capricornia album at Amazon.com

Earth and Sun and Moon album at Amazon.com

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 album at Amazon.com

Head Injuries album at Amazon.com

Redneck Wonderland album at Amazon.com

Red Sails in the Sunset album at Amazon.com

No Man's Land album at Amazon.com
 
 
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