Blue Sky Mine
Blue Sky Mine

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine Lyrics

Rock
Feb 25, 1990
417
Blue Sky Mine Music Video

Blue Sky Mine Lyrics

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 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 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?
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 I 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

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've got nothing to fear

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

Writer(s): Martin Rotsey, Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett, Wayne Stevens
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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