Blue Sky Mine (Food On The Table Mix)

Written by: -
Midnight Oil
 
General Song Notes: -
None.
 
Production Details: -
Produced by Warne Livesey and Midnight Oil. Engineer: David Nicholas. Assistant Engineer: Brandon Morley. Remixed by: Nick Launay. Recorded in Sydney, 1989.
 
Other Version-Specific Details: -
None.
 
Track Time: -
6:34
 
Lyrics: -
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)

Hey, hey-hey hey
Hey, hey-hey hey
Hey, hey-hey hey...

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey

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)

There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

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

I pray that sense and reason brings us in
We've got nothing to fear
We've got nothing to fear

But if I work all day
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down
(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
 
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