It's always here

Drying your clothes in the sun

Alone, slowly burning

Away

I'm so thirsty I might die

Thirty miles from the mines

“Have you seen the drunken Captain singing?

What d'you want to know?”

“One more night in Absalom,

Help yourselves men

To Whiskey, onions and chilli

Eat Men Eat!”

Company A wake with a start

Stomachs open, burning hearts

With drills and lines this red liquid mined

Captain bottles Rennie's red wine

“Don't touch Rio Tinto's bottom line”

Three long nights in those pits they called Hell

Captain's food got me sick and oh so sleepy

“I love you but I can feel my chest bubbling!”

Oh so heavy and then

Oh so light, almost something

“And as they ran arm in arm from the burning crater Captain's screams echoed:”

“You fucking faggots ain't seen the last of me yet

I'll have the last laugh you cunts soon you'll see

Each day you wake and each night you sleep

I'll be camped in your chests

Burning!”

But we kept on running, turned our backs on old Hell,

With wine in our hearts, hailed as saviours of Old -