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Blue Sky Mine Lyrics By Midnight Oil

    spoken music video only
    an exxon oil tanker csr company faced tough questioning at the company’s annual
    from geelong payouts to workers affected by asbestos

    hey hey hey hey
    there’ll be food on the table tonight
    hey hey hey
    there’ll be pay in your pocket tonight

    my gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
    my life that is lived 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 blue 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 on 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 shareholders
    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
    who’s gonna save me
    who’s gonna save me

    but if i work all day on the blue sky mine
    there’ll be food on the table tonight
    and if walk up and down on the blue sky mine
    there’ll be pay in your pocket tonight

    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

    interlude

    who’s gonna save me
    who’s gonna save me
    i pray that sense and reason brings us in
    who’s gonna save me
    who’s gonna save me
    we got nothing to fear
    in the end the rain comes down
    in the end the rain comes down
    washes clean the streets of the blue sky town

    Artist: Midnight Oil

    Year: 1990

    Decade: 90s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 192