Blue sky mine lyrics

Artist  : Midnight oil 
Song : Blue sky mine
 
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)