Beds Are Burning est une chanson politique, ayant pour but de rendre leurs terres natales aux aborigènes Pintupi, volées 200 ans plus tôt.
Beds Are Burning est une chanson de 1987 du groupe de rock australien Midnight Oil, premier titre sur leur album Diesel & Dust. Cette chanson a été l'un des plus grands succès de 1987/1988. Elle a été classée numéro 1 des charts sud-africains et néo-zélandais, numéro 2 aux Canada, numéro 3 aux Pays-Bas, numéro 5 dans le top 50 français, numéro 6 dans les charts britanniques, numéro 11 en Irlande, numéro 17 dans le U.S. Billboard Hot 100, au Danemark et en Suède.
Elle fait partie du Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll (panthéon rock'n roll des 500 chansons qui ont fait le rock and roll).

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