Salut à toi l'ami-e...
Aujourd'hui, petit retour aux classiques des eighties.
Avec "Beds are burning", le
groupe australien
Midnight Oil alerte le monde sur le réchauffement climatique, dans l'album Diesel & Dust publié en 1987.
Le groupe qui commencé sa carrière en
1972 sous le nom de The Farm, s'est rendu célèbre notamment pour ses
engagements écologistes,
antinucléaires,
pacifistes...
En 1984, la pochette de son album
Red Sails in the Sunset, montre la ville de Sydney dévastée par une explosion nucléaire.
Midnight Oil passe le mois de juillet
1986 à jouer dans le
bush australien auprès des populations aborigènes. Profondément marqué par l'expérience, le groupe enregistre la chanson
The Dead Heart, qui préfigure l'album
Diesel and Dust.
En
1990, l'album Blue Sky Mining, aborde cette fois des sujets environnementaux comme la
déforestation et les
pluies acides. Le groupe organise, en pleine tournée, un concert improvisé devant le siège de la
compagnie pétrolière
Exxon au
World Trade Center, accusée d'avoir déversé des tonnes de pétrole en
Alaska avec l'échouement de l'Exxon Valdez.
"Comment pouvons-nous danser pendant que la planète brûle,
comment pouvons-nous dormir alors qu'il y a le feu à nos lits?"
(traduction des paroles
à voir ici)
"Beds Are Burning"
Out where the river broke
The blood-wood 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
The blood-wood 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
La bise.
Ju.
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