We Work The Black Seam-Sting

[ti:We Work The Black Seam] [ar:Sting] [al:Symphonicities] [00:02.00]Sting - We Work The Black Seam [07:01.41][06:45.81][06:29.03][06:15.60][05:39.26][05:06.77][04:17.53][04:03.02][03:26.21][02:54.01][02:24.96][02:11.30][01:34.53][01:02.47][00:17.00] [00:34.50]This place has changed for good [00:39.58]Your economic theory said it would [00:51.26]It's hard for us to understand [00:55.54]We can't give up our jobs the way we should [01:06.82]Our blood has stained the coal [01:11.50]We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul [01:23.52]We matter more than pounds and pence [01:27.70]Your economic theory makes no sense [05:44.13][03:31.72][01:39.84]One day in a nuclear age [05:48.59][03:36.56][01:44.35]They may understand our rage [05:52.52][03:40.21][01:48.18]They build machines that they can't control [05:56.17][03:44.06][01:51.69]And bury the waste in a great big hole [06:00.39][03:48.17][01:56.35]Power was to become cheap and clean [06:04.31][03:52.11][02:00.01]Grimy faces were never seen [06:08.40][03:56.20][02:04.02]But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen [06:56.06][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 [02:26.89]The seam lies underground [02:31.74]Three million years of pressure packed it down [02:43.68]We walk through ancient forest lands [02:47.93]And light a thousand cities with our hands [02:59.19]Your dark satanic mills [03:03.79]Have made redundant all our mining skills [03:15.51]You can't exchange a six inch band [03:20.07]For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland [04:39.34]Our conscious lives run deep [04:43.51]You cling onto your mountain while we sleep [04:55.77]This way of life is part of me [04:59.74]There is no price so only let me be [05:11.54]And should the children weep [05:15.96]The turning world will sing their souls to sleep [05:27.69]When you have sunk without a trace [05:32.15]The universe will suck me into place