Blue Sky Mine Lyrics - Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil

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