blue sky mine
Singer:midnight oil
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
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
still i walk up and down on the blue sky mine
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 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
but if i work all day on the blue sky mine
and if walk up and down on the blue sky mine
and some have sailed from a distant shore
and nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground
i pray that sense and reason brings us in
in the end the rain comes down
in the end the rain comes down
washes clean the streets of the blue sky town