Burning Benches

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"Burning Benches"

Single by Morning Runner
from the album Wilderness Is Paradise Now
B-side(s)	"Them Folk"
Released	20 February 2006
Format	7", CD, Maxi-CD
Recorded	2005
Genre	Rock
Length	4:08 (radio edit)
Label	Parlophone
Producer(s)	John Cornfield
Chart positions
#19 (UK Singles Chart)
Morning Runner singles chronology
"Have a Good Time" (2005)	"Burning Benches" (2006)	"The Great Escape" (2006)

"Burning Benches" is a song by English rock band Morning Runner from their debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now. It was released 20 February 2006 as the lead single from that album, charting at #19 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music).

The single enjoyed a large amount of success on the radio, reaching the BBC Radio 1 B List, as well as being made single of the week by Steve Lamacq, Scott Mills, and Colin and Edith.

The song is, according to the band, not so much about love as it is about obsession. Lead singer Matthew Greener said, "It sounded a bit too lovely, which is why we made it louder towards the end, we wanted to mess it up a bit." It was inspired by the surreal David Lynch horror film Eraserhead, in which the main character Henry Spencer watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding happiness in heaven.