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