Sting

Released: June 1, 1985

Songwriter: Sting

Producer: Pete Smith Sting

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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 [2x]

[Verse 3]
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

[Verse 4]
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

[Chorus]

[???]
Our conscious lives run deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
The is no price so only let me be

[Verse 5]
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]

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, better known as Sting (b.1951 in Wallsend, England), is the former front man and bassist of The Police who since has had a long and successful solo career.

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