Lirik dan Chord Lagu We Work the Black Seam - Sting

Lagu ini terdapat dalam debut album solo pertamanya yang bertajuk The Dream of the Blue Turtles.

Album tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 17 Juni 1985 melalui label musik A&M Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “We Work the Black Seam” dari Sting.

[Verse 1]
Am
This place has changed for good
Am                      G                    Am
Your economic theory said it would
Am                           G
It's hard for us to understand
Am                             G                          Am
We can't give up our jobs the way we should

[Verse 2]
Am
Our blood has stained the coal
Am                          G                           Am
We tunneled deep inside the nations soul
Am                                G
We matter more than pounds and pence
Am                     G                          Am
Your economic theory makes no sense

[Chorus]
F                        C
One day in a nuclear age
G                          Am
They may understand our rage
           F                                       C
They build machines that they can't control
         G                             Fmaj7
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F                           C
Power was to be cheap and clean
G                           Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F                                     C
But deadly for twelve thousand years
       G            Am
Is carbon fourteen
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together

[Verse 3]
Am
The seam lies underground
Am                                G                             Am
Three million years of pressure packed it down
Am                                     G
We walk through ancient forest lands
Am                              G                       Am
And light a thousand cities with our hands

[Verse 4]
Am
Your dark satanic mills
Am                               G                       Am
Have made redundant all our mining skills
Am                              G
You can't exchange a six inch band
Am                              G                   Am
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland

[Chorus]
F                           C
One day in a nuclear age
G                          Am
They may understand our rage
           F                                       C
They build machines that they can't control
         G                              Fmaj7
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F                           C
Power was to be cheap and clean
G                            Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F                                      C
But deadly for twelve thousand years
      G            Am
Is carbon fourteen
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together

[Verse 5]
Am
And should the children weep
Am                               G                             Am
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
Am                              G
When you have sunk without a trace
Am                       G                     Am
The universe will suck me into place

[Chorus]
F                         C
One day in a nuclear age
G                          Am
They may understand our rage
           F                                        C
They build machines that they can't control
          G                             Fmaj7
And bury the waste in a great big hole
F                           C
Power was to be cheap and clean
G                           Am
Grimy faces were never seen
F                                     C
But deadly for twelve thousand years
      G            Am
Is carbon fourteen
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together
       G                                 Am
We work the black seam together