Blue Sky Mine (interview) Songtext
von Midnight Oil

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 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 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
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 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 got nothing to fear

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