Learn Language through the song Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

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- [Reporter 1] An Exxon oil tanker-

- [Reporter 2] A CSR company faced tough questioning

at the company's annual meeting today from shareholders-

- [Reporter 3] And the payouts

to workers affected by asbestos.

("Blue Sky Mine")

♪ 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's crunched up and broken ♪

♪ A 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 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 ♪

♪ 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 ♪

♪ 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 ♪

♪ 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 ♪

Blue Sky Mine