Sting - We Work The Black Seam: chords

Am
This place has changed for good
     C         Em             Am
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

Chorus:
F             C
One day in a nuclear age
  Dm            Am
They may understand our rage
      F                        C
They build machines that they can't control
     Dm                  Am
And bury the waste in a great big hole
 F                C
Power was to be cheap and clean
Dm                Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F                        C
But deadly for twelve thousand years
    Dm
Is carbon fourteen
    Am                          C Em
We work the black seam together
    Am                          F Dm
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

Chorus

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