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Blue Sky Mine

Track Listing
    12" Aus
  • Blue Sky Mine
  • Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)
  • You May Not Be Released
    12" Promo Brazil
  • Blue Sky Mine
    12" Promo USA
  • Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)
    CD Promo USA
  • Blue Sky Mine
    3" CD Austria
  • Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)
  • No Time For Games
Credits

From the 1990 album "Blue Sky Mining".

Blue Sky Mine, Forgotten Years, The Dead Heart and Beds are Burning produced by Warne Livesey and Midnight Oil
Is It Now?, Wedding Cake Island and No Time For Games produced by Leszek Karski
Blossom and Blood produced by Midnight Oil and Francois Kervorkian.
You May Not Be Released produced by Midnight Oil
Engineered by Paula Jones. Recorded at Rhinoceros Studios.
(Copyright of Sprint/Columbia)

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 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)