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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Midnight Oil
Performer
Bones Hillman
Bass
Martin Rotsey
Guitar
Rob Hirst
Drums
Peter Garrett
Vocals
Warne Livesey
Keyboards
Jim Moginie
Keyboards
Jeremy Smith
French Horn
Glad .
Horn
Garf .
Horn
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Midnight Oil
Producer
Martin Rotsey
Producer
Rob Hirst
Producer
Peter Garrett
Producer
Warne Livesey
Producer
Jim Moginie
Producer
David Nicholas
Engineer
Peter Gifford
Producer
Brendan Morley
Assistant Engineer
Steve Smart
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
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
Writer(s): Robert Hirst, Peter Garrett, James Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Wayne Stevens
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