We Work The Black Seam Lyrics - Bring On The Night - Sting

This place has changed for good 

Your economic theory said it would 

It's hard for us to understand 

We can't give up our jobs the way we should 

Our blood has stained the coal 

We tunneled deep inside the nations soul 

We matter more than pounds and pence 

Your economic theory makes no sense 

One day in a nuclear age 

They may understand our rage 

They build machines that they can't control 

And bury the waste in a great big hole 

Power was to become cheap and clean 

Grimey faces were never seen 

But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen 

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We work the black seam together 

The seam is underground 

Three million years of pressure packed it down 

We walk through ancient forest lands 

And light a thousand cities with our hands 

Your dark satanic mills 

Have made redundant all our mining skills 

You can't exchange a six inch band 

For all the poisoned steams in cumberland 

Chorus 

We work the black seam together 

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Our conscious lives run deep 

You cling onto your mountain while we sleep 

This way of life is part of me 

There is no price so only let me be 

And should the children weep 

The turning world will sing their souls to sleep 

When you have sunk without a trace 

The universe will suck me into place 

Chorus 

We work the black seam together