- [Reporter 1] An Exxon oil tanker-
00:01
- [Reporter 2] A CSR company
faced tough questioning
00:03
at the company's annual meeting
today from shareholders-
00:05
- [Reporter 3] And the payouts
00:07
to workers affected by asbestos.
00:08
("Blue Sky Mine")
00:12
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
00:56
♪ There'll be food on the table tonight ♪
00:59
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
01:03
♪ There'll be pay in your pocket tonight ♪
01:06
♪ My gut is wrenched out,
it's crunched up and broken ♪
01:10
♪ A life that is lived
is no more than a token ♪
01:14
♪ Who'll strike the flint upon
the stone and tell me why ♪
01:17
♪ If I yell out at night, there's
a reply of bruised silence ♪
01:24
♪ The screen is no comfort,
I can't speak my sentence ♪
01:28
♪ They blew the lights at heaven's
gate and I don't know why ♪
01:32
♪ But if I work all day
on the Blue Sky Mine ♪
01:39
♪ There'll be food on the table tonight ♪
01:43
♪ Still I walk up and down
on the Blue Sky Mine ♪
01:46
♪ There'll be pay in your pocket tonight ♪
01:50
♪ The candy store paupers
lie to the shareholders ♪
01:54
♪ They're crossing their fingers,
they pay the truth makers ♪
01:57
♪ The balance sheet is
breaking up the sky ♪
02:01
♪ So I'm caught at the junction
still waiting for medicine ♪
02:08
♪ The sweat of my brow keeps
on feeding the engine ♪
02:12
♪ Hope the crumbs in my pocket
can keep me for another night ♪
02:15
♪ And if the Blue Sky Mining
Company won't come to my rescue ♪
02:22
♪ If the sugar refining
company won't save me ♪
02:30
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
02:36
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
02:40
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
02:44
♪ But if I work all day
on the Blue Sky Mine ♪
02:48
♪ There'll be food on the table tonight ♪
02:51
♪ And if I walk up and
down on the Blue Sky Mine ♪
02:55
♪ There'll be pay in your pocket tonight ♪
02:59
♪ And some have sailed
from a distant shore ♪
03:02
♪ And the company takes
what the company wants ♪
03:06
♪ And nothing's as precious
as a hole in the ground ♪
03:10
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
03:46
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
03:49
♪ I pray that sense and
reason brings us in ♪
03:53
♪ Who's gonna save me ♪
04:00
♪ We've got nothing to fear ♪
04:03
♪ In the end the rain comes down ♪
04:08
♪ In the end the rain comes down ♪
04:12
♪ Washes clean the streets
of a Blue Sky town ♪
04:16
Lyrics & Translation
[English]
- [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 ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ 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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