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Soma Mine Disaster

from MARKO GREYHOUND​/​RYAN HARVEY by Deny

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Take a trip with me in 2014
To Western Turkey, in the mining country
Come the biggest disaster to strike underground
And the lies of the government come back around
Just as the tear gas had cleared from the air
And the cops had withdrawn out of Taksim Square
In the mine-shafts of Soma the working went on
And the miners dug deeper and deeper down
Turkish miners had marched just the previous year
Held underground sit-ins to make themselves clear
That safety conditions must change in the mines
For thousands and thousands of miners had died
Just as the bell tolled for the afternoon shift
A fire ignited and it spread through the shaft
One mile down in the crust of the earth
And 700 miners were down there at work
The miners were trapped with no hope for escape
As Carbon Monoxide spread out from the flames
The bosses kept quiet, the working went on
And hundreds of miners died in the mine
Before the rescue efforts had stopped
The government sent out the soldiers and cops
To confront grieving families who gathered and cried
To silence them like they'd silenced those in the mines
On came the angry with fire in their eyes
To the streets of Turkey to challenge the lies
Saying "don't sleep, Soma, remember your dead!"
And they fought with the cops in the miners' defense
In Asturias and Gafsa and the Virginias too
They know well the business that mine owners do
How politicians and bosses join hands
And miners are exploited again and again
It's a story repeated again and again
A massacre framed as an accident
They'll rob and they'll murder the ones in the mines
And what now will come of these terrible times?

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from MARKO GREYHOUND​/​RYAN HARVEY, released April 26, 2015

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