"Burning Benches" is a song by English rock band Morning Runner and was the fourth track on their 2006 debut album Wilderness Is Paradise Now.

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.

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.

The official music video depicts in reverse motion the band members trapped and drowning in a water-filled lift.

As it is played in reverse, the video starts with their bodies underwater, their panic decreasing as the water level falls, their vain attempt to pry the door open, a leak starting, a floor button being pressed and ends with their walking into the lift.