Blue Sky Mining lyrics by Midnight Oil
Lyric & Midi information*****************************************
Title * 0229 Blue Sky Mining
Artist * Midnight Oil
Composer * GARRETT/MOGINIE/HIRST/ROTSEY/HILLMAN
Publisher * Warner Chappell. Unauthorised copying is illegal
Programmer * � John Roy
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There'll be food on the table tonight
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 and heaven's gate and I don't know why
CHORUS
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 in 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?
CHORUS
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
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Key * Eb Minor
Tempo * 132 Bpm
Time * 4 Mins/16 Secs
Length* 143 Bars
Ch 1 * Organ
Ch 2 * Bass
Ch 3 * Steel String Acoustic Guitar
Ch 4 * Muted Guitar
Ch 5 * Overdrive Guitar
Ch 6 * Harmonica
Ch 10 * Drums (Standard Kit)
