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There are 34 misheard song lyrics for Midnight Oil on amIright currently.
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"Beds Are Burning"
A fowl will stare upon your toes.
or
A fall will stare the potty toes.
or
A fall will stare the potty toes.
Four wheels scare the cockatoos.
"Beds Are Burning"
Golden wrecks and boiling dissolves
Steam at 45 degrees.
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in 45 degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
How can we dance when our love is turning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can we dance while the dudes are burning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can we dance with our herpes burning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can we sleep when our pants are burning?
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can we sleep while the babes are burning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can you sleep while your bowels are churning?
How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How can you think when your pants are burning?
How do we sleep when our beds are burning?
"Beds Are Burning"
How could we dance when I heard keys turning?
How can we dance when our earth is turning?
"Beds Are Burning"
Our bags are packed
A fact's a fact
"Beds Are Burning"
Out where the river broke
The bloodworth and the desert oak
Hold the Rex and butt the 'these alls'
Stealing forty five degrees.
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
The bloodwood and the desert rose
Golden wrecks and boiling designs.
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels.
"Beds Are Burning"
The time has come
The safe has failed
The time has come
to say fair's fair
"Beds Are Burning"
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
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"
The time has come to save this sphere
The time has come to say fair's fair
"Beds Are Burning"
The time has come, our bags are packed
The time has come, a fact's a fact
"Beds Are Burning"
The time has come
To say fair well.
The time has come
To say fair's fair.
"Beds Are Burning"
The western desert lives and breathes
To fortify the rains.
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty-five degrees.
"Beds Are Burning"
To pay the rent, dictatorship
To pay the rent, to pay our share
"Blue Sky Mine"
And nothing's as precious as a hole in the crowd.
And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground.
"Blue Sky Mine"
If I yell at night, there is a reply of blue silence.
If I yell out at night, there's a reply of bruised silence.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Indiana rain comes down
In the end the rain comes down
"Blue Sky Mine"
Indiana rain house down
In the end, the rain comes down.
"Blue Sky Mine"
Somebody shave me
Somebody save me
"Blue Sky Mine"
There'll be food on the table turning 'round.
There'll be food on the table tonight.
"Blue Sky Mine"
There'll be paint in your pocket tonight.
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight.
"Blue Sky Mining"
Who's going to shave me
Who's going to save me
"Blue Sky Mining"
Who's gonna shave me?
Who's gonna save me?
"In the Valley"
When my father went down,
it was a stink bomb from Hades
When my father went down,
it was a stiff arm from hades
"Mountains Of Burma"
The taco box is empty.
The Tucker box is empty.
Does anybody know what a Tucker box is? Is it where you keep your Tuckers?
"Movers And Shakers"
We can dive into distant Enema's
Our wangs could melt in the sun.
We can dive into distant ameobas
Our wings could melt in the sun.
"U.S. Forces"
You asked for forgive-uh-ness
U.S. Forces give the nod
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