We Work The Black Seam
Sting & Police

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

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
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
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
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
Grimy faces were never seen
Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together

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

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
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
We work the black seam together


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  3 O'clock Shot - Live   A Sermon   A Thousand Years   After The Rain Has Fallen   Ain't No Sunshine   All For Love   All Four Seasons   All This Time   Angel Eyes   Another Day   Be My Girl - Sally   Be Still My Beating Heart   Big Lie, Small World   Bombs Away   Born In The 50's   Brand New Day   Bring On The Night   Can She Excuse My Wrongs?   Can't Stand Losing You   Canary In A Coalmine   Children's Crusade   Clear Or Cloudy   Come, Heavy Sleep   Consider Me Gone   Contact   Darkness   De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da   Dead End Job   Dead Man's Rope   Deathwish   Demolition Man   Desert Rose   Does Everyone Stare   Don't Stand So Close To Me   Driven To Tears   Electron Romance   Ellas Danzan Solas (Cueca Solas)   Englishman In New York   Every Breath You Take   Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic   Everybody Laughed But You   Fall Out   Fields Of Gold   Fill Her Up   Fine Knacks For Ladies   Flow, My Tears (Lachrimae)   Forget About the Future   Fortress Around Yur Heart   Fragile   Frgil (Portuguese)   Friends   Ghost Story   Have You Seen The Bright Lily Grow   Heavy Cloud No Rain   History Will Teach Us Nothing   Hole In My Life   Hungry For You (j'aurai toujours faim de toi)   I Been Down So Long   I Burn For You   I Hung My Head   I Was Brought To My Senses   I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying   If I Ever Lose My Faith In You   If You Love Somebody Set Them Free   Inside   Invisible Sun   Island Of Souls   It's Alright For You   It's Probably Me   Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)   King Of Pain   La Belle Dame Sans Regrets   Lady Of Delight   Landlord   Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot   Lithium Sunset   Little Wing   Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seve...   Love Is The Seventh Wave   Low Life   Mad About You   Man In A Suitcase   Mariposa Libre   Masoko Tanga   Message In A Bottle   Miss Gradenko   Moon Over Bourbon Street   Moonlight   Mother   Murder By Numbers   My One And Only Love   Need Your Love So Bad   Never Coming Home   New World Blues   Next To You   No Time This Time   Nothing 'Bout Me   Nothing Achieving   O My God   Omegaman   On Any Other Day   Once Upon A Daydream   One World (Not Three)   Peanuts   Perfect Love...Gone Wrong   Prelude To End Of The Game   Reggatta de Blanc   Rehumanize Yourself   Rock Steady   Roxanne   Russians   Sacred Love   Saint Augustine In Hell   Secret Journey   Send Your Love   Seven Days   Shadows In The Rain   Shape Of My Heart   She's Too Good For Me   Si Estamos Juntos   Sister Moon   So Lonely   Someone To Talk To   Someone To Watch Over Me   Something The Boy Said   Spirits In The Material World   Stolen Car   Straight To My Heart   Synchronicity I   Synchronicity II   Tea In The Sahara   The Bed's Too Big Without You   The Book Of My Life   The Hounds Of Winter   The Lazarus Heart   The Lowest Trees Have Tops   The Secret Marriage   The Soul Cages   The Wild Wild Sea   They Dance Alone   This Cowboy Song   This War   Tomorrow We'll See   Too Much Information   Towers Tumble   Truth Hits Everybody   Twenty Five To Midnight   Valparaiso   Visions Of The Night   Voices Inside My Head   Walking In Your Footsteps   Walking On The Moon   We'll Be Together   Weep You No More, Sad Fountain   When The Angels Fall   When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best O...   When We Dance   Whenever I Say Your Name   Why Should I Cry For You?   Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me   Wrapped Around Your Finger   You Still Touch Me

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