Soul Deep - The Style Council

Getcha mining soul deep — with a lesson in history

There’s people fighting for their communities

Don’t say this struggle — does not involve you

If you’re from the working class this is your struggle too

If they spent more on life as they do on death

We might find the money to make industry progress

There’s mud in the waters — there’s lies upon the page

There’s blood on the hillsides and they’re not getting paid

There’s brother 'gainst brother — there’s fathers against sons

But as for solidarity, I don’t see none

(Let's change that — let’s fight back)

Going on 10 months now — will it take another 10

Living on the breadline — with what some people send

Just where is the backing from the TUC

If we aren’t united there can only be defeat

Think of all those brave men — women and children alike

Who built the unions so others might survive

In better conditions — than abject misery

Not supporting the miners — betrays that legacy

There’s brother 'gainst brother — there’s fathers against sons

Let’s change that — let’s fight back!

Up north the temperature’s rising

Down south she’s wine and dining

We can’t afford to let the government win

It means death to the trade unions

And the cash it costs to close 'em

Is better spent trying to keep 'em open

Try to feel the pain in those seeds planted

Now are the things that we take for granted

Like the power to strike if we don’t agree

With the bosses that make those policies

That keep us down and keep us dumb

So don’t settle for less than the No. one!