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Blue Sky Mine Lyrics

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Hey, hey-hey hey
There'll be food on the table tonight
Hey, hey, hey hey
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
A life that is led is no more than a token
Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why
If I yell out at night there's a reply of bruised silence
The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence
They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why

But if I work all day at the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

The candy store paupers lie to the share holders
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me
Who's gonna save me?

But if I work all day...

And some have sailed from a distant shore
And the company takes what the company wants
And nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground

Who's gonna save me?
I pray that sense and reason brings us in
Who's gonna save me?
We've got nothing to fear

In the end the rain comes down
Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town

(Midnight Oil)

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punkgirl1976 19/02/2006 05:33:05
If you've ever seen the movie 'October Sky' then you might get maybe .00002% of the scope of this song...NOTHING'S AS PRECIOUS AS A HOLE IN THE GROUND. They don't care who or what they destroy, how many lives they wreck, how many people they kill, how many people they trap...the mines. It all comes down to the fuckin' mines. It makes me sick.
SnowyGem 18/07/2004 11:49:21
Of the brillant album Blue Sky Mining... this is another one of those songs by the Oils that never fails to satisfy.... political and influential at their best.... and never failing to deliver on a powerful message...Aussie Rock at its best:D
TheGreatSeanDillon 22/07/2003 08:25:33
Another great song by the 'Oils!
AnnieLou 15/04/2003 17:06:04
When this song first came out, I thought it was, "Who's gonna SHAVE me?" So I was wrong! I've heard stranger lyrics.
Anonymous 17/02/2003 15:33:53
Anonymous 17/02/2003 15:33:36
Anonymous 19/07/2002 18:27:43
In light of Enron, WorldComm, etc, this song says it all...

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