Sting - We Work the Black Seam (CD The Dream of the Blue Turtles) video free download

okrajoe

I always thought these lyrics were so well written.

Harry Casper

Y2K Prophetic: "They build machines that they can't control."

Gustavo Al

Huge song.

Gustavo Al

His best solo record and among the best of the 80s.

Robert Arthur

I am 51, so remember the 80s very well, when I marched with and was a member of the CND. Thankfully, we have a government in Scotland that is looking at alternatives to nuclear and fossil. However, the corollary with fracking should not be overlooked. Great song.

Eric Henderson

"We can't give up our jobs the way we should." WOW - songwriter.

demetrios3232

The pitch is off from the upload. The song is in the wrong key.

Axtz

For my personal necessity:This place has changed for goodYour economic theory said it wouldIt's hard for us to understandWe can't give up our jobs the way we shouldOur blood has stained the coalWe tunneled deep inside the nation's soulWe matter more than pounds and penceYour economic theory makes no senseOne day in a nuclear ageThey may understand our rageThey build machines that they can't controlAnd bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and cleanGrimy faces were never seenDeadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteenWe work the black seam togetherWe work the black seam togetherThe seam lies undergroundThree million years of pressure packed it downWe walk through ancient forest landsAnd light a thousand cities with our handsYour dark satanic millsHave made redundant all our mining skillsYou can't exchange a six inch bandFor all the poisoned streams in CumberlandYour economic theory makes no senseOne day in a nuclear ageThey may understand our rageThey build machines that they can't controlAnd bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and cleanGrimy faces were never seenDeadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteenWe work the black seam togetherWe work the black seam togetherShould the children weepThe turning world will sing their souls to sleepWhen you have sunk without a traceThe universe will suck me into placeOne day in a nuclear ageThey may understand our rageThey build machines that they can't controlAnd bury the waste in a great big holePower was to become cheap and cleanGrimy faces were never seenBut deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteenWe work the black seam togetherWe work the black seam together

Tony Martello

I wonder if Sting can make it on his own! ! !

Nick Propst

Why did I think the saxophone sounded like an oboe? The synclavier also sounds like flutes in the verse

Enrique Perez

When other high school students were playing MC hammer, Vanilla Ice and others thru their Tape players and cassettes; I was enjoy this instead. LOVED my childhood !! (ps: I still have the LP and for some reason, still have another Original LP pressing brand new in shrink wrap!) I feel lucky and blessed.

math you

I refused to work on the black seam. I worked on myself instead. :)

Jian Lakerson

This story isn't merely about coal, but an allegory to express the dirtiness of modern fuel production. "Peaceful nuclear," like so-called "clean coal," deadly for 12 thousand years, just to pick a number, building machines that we can't control and bury the waste in great big hole... we now know it's never been more relevant.

Wes Bervig

Compare those grimy stoker's faces on the Titanic with the clean faces of nuclear reactor officers on a U.S. Navy ship and you'll get the meaning behind this song.

Jessica Oudbier

Something happened the other day, something my president said. My CD collection lost, but this album reminded me of my youth and how politics felt then too. It seems we're on a Neverending loop. "someday they'll understand our rage". Will they? Really?

s o`s

the start of globalization

Janos Groth

One of the best ever !

JerichoBrand

the Power of this album is in the fact that it makes a 90's kid like myself wish that he lived in the 80's in my opinion Sting's best Album Ever , and this song and it's hypnotic Tune is something beyond belief ...

B2D 327

this album was the soundtrack to my sophomore year in high school; I can still sing along 30 years later

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