We Work The Black Seam

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 nation's soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense
[03:31.72][01:39.84]One day in a nuclear age
[03:36.56][01:44.35]They may understand our rage
[03:40.21][01:48.18]They build machines that they can't control
[03:44.06][01:51.69]And bury the waste in a great big hole
[03:48.17][01:56.35]Power was to become cheap and clean
[03:52.11][02:00.01]Grimy faces were never seen
[03:56.20][02:04.02]But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
[06:47.98][06:40.28][06:32.22][06:23.91][06:16.39][04:11.63][04:03.82][02:19.58][02:12.23]We work the black seam together
The seam lies 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 streams in Cumberland
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