Midnight Oil
"Blue Sky Mine"
Dm F Dm G
Dm Am F C
He he he hey .
(There'll be food on the table tonight) .
He he he hey yeah .
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)
C Am
My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken .
My life that is lived is no more than a token
F G Am
Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why?
C Am
If I yell out at night there's a reply of blue silence .
The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence
F G Am
They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why
Dm F Dm G
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But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
Dm Am F C
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Dm F Dm G
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
Dm Am F C
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)
C Am
The candy store paupers lie to the shareholders .
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
F G Am
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
C Am
So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine .
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
F G Am
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night
Dm G
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue .
If the sugar refining company won't save me
F Bb
C Am
Who's gonna save me?
Dm F Dm G
And some have sailed from a distant shore
Dm Am F C
And the company takes what the company wants
Dm F Dm G
And nothing's as precious
Dm Am F C
As a hole in the ground
C Am
F G Am
Dm F Dm G
F Bb
C Am
Who's gonna save me? (2x)
F G
I pray that sense and reason brings us in
C Am
Who's gonna save me? (2x)
F G
We've got nothing to fear
C Am
In the end the rain comes down (2x)
F G
Washes clean the streets of a blue sky town
C