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| Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It thus puts the point across that - you can say or believe what ever you want on issues of white colonisation, but the truth exists irrespective of what you think - and that truth is that kids were stolen (as was the land) and that whilst we can't change the past, we can "give it back" by offering and apology, as was given in parliament earlier this year. People who hold racist views on this issue are the rejects of modern society, they are uneducated and from the lower tiers of society. How can we dance, when their views are the ones held by politicians and other people apparently "at the top"? It's an injustice that causes our "beds" to burn. |
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| Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The gist of the song is - how can we go on living our day to day lives in the face of injustices that have been committed against fellow humans? The world keeps turning (days pass), and we dance, but how can we dance (a sign of happiness) when such horrendous crimes have been commited? How can we sleep (a sign of peace of comfortableness) when the foundation of our bed (the land) is stolen? It thus puts the point accross without using normal arguements which could be rejected by people with "common sense" views on reconciliation and colonisation. |
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| Blessid Union of Souls – Hey Leonardo (she Likes Me For Me) Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think this song is an attack on modern materialism. It uses Irony and Sarcasm to show that *no* girls are like this in the modern world. It invokes sarcasm and irony in almost every line to illustrate this, to show what how selfish and judgemental females are in the modern world. Girls *don't* think like this. They *do* care whether a guy has a big screen TV or not. |
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