Company Sin - John Butler Trio

Ben got a job

At the mine along the way

He said everything was fine until that fatefulday

That's when his life

Started to change

The day he went to help and go blow

Up that mountain range

Ben moved to town a year ago or maybe more

Straight out of high school

The whole world he had in store

Wanted to travel

Needed some dough

Everybody worked the mine

Why should he say no

Don't ask him why

He can't explain

Why now things for him have changed

It's not his land

They're not his song's

He can't work out why he don't belong

He part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When Humbug did begin

Part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When humbug did begin

Now legend has it

Or so they say

The Bones of an ancient people

Yeah that's where they lay and

Their descendents

Hold close the Heart

Oh that mountain range Ben

Was helping blow apart

And as I said for Ben things weren't quite right

Now he's waking up screaming every single night

Hearing voices in a different tongue

The screaming of the Old

Yeah the screaming of the young

Don't ask him why he can't explain

Why now he feels in so much pain

It's not his land

They're not his songs

He can't work out why he don't belong

He part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When humbug did begin

Part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When humbug did begin

Now Ben moved on job left him a while back

Now his thanking God that

His boss gave him the sack

But in the mirror

Yes he can face

The day he stopped helping go

Blow up that sacred place they

Part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When humbug did begin

Part of company

Part of company

Part of company sin

Won't someone please tell the lad

When humbug did begin

That the mine along the way

Now legend has it or so they say

That the mine along in the way

Now legend what you say