Forgotten Years

"Forgotten Years"
Single by Midnight Oil
from the album Blue Sky Mining
B-side	"Shakers and Movers" "You May Not Be Released"
Released	16 April 1990 (1990-04-16)
Length	4:21
Label	CBS Sprint Music
Songwriters	Rob Hirst Jim Moginie
Producers	Midnight Oil Warne Livesey
Midnight Oil singles chronology
"Blue Sky Mine" (1990) "Forgotten Years" (1990) "King of the Mountain" (1990)

"Forgotten Years" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in April 1990 as the second single from their seventh studio album, Blue Sky Mining (1990). The song peaked at No. 26 on the Australian Singles Chart, No. 1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Chart and No. 11 on the Billboard Album Rock Chart.

The song was inspired by drummer Rob Hirst's grandfather and father's experience of war and how they said it was up to future generations to avoid wars in the future and not to forget how horrible wars are.^{[citation needed]} The music video was filmed in Douaumont Ossuary, France.^{[citation needed]}

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2. ^ Forgotten Years (UK 7-inch single sleeve). CBS Records. 1990. OIL 6.
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9. ^ "Midnight Oil Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard.
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12. ^ "ミッドナイト・オイル | フォーゴトゥン・イヤーズ" [Midnight Oil | Forgotten Years] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 14 March 2025.

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