We Work The Black Seam - 1993 Version

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 nations 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

Grimey faces were never seen

Deadly for 12, 000 years is carbon 14

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

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

Grimey faces were never seen

Deadly for 12, 000 years is carbon 14

We work the black seam together

We work the black seam together

Your dark satanic mills

Has made redundant all our mining skills

You can't exchange a six-inch band

For all the poisoned streams in cumberland

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

Grimey faces were never seen

Deadly for 12, 000 years is carbon 14

We work the black seam together

We work the black seam together

We work the black seam together

We work the black seam together