"The Blue Sky Mine," produced by Warne Livesey, was released by CBS/Columbia on February 9, 1990. This song then mentions the Wittenoom asbestos mine in Western Australia, where blue asbestos was mined between 1947 and 1966. Furthermore, the area is practically deserted, with scraps in every building. The most heinous issue, however, was that it was estimated that 25% of the men who worked there would contract diseases and die as a result of those diseases. Using a variety of rhythmic and distinct techniques, the grunts (miners and mill workers) who are exposed and vulnerable to the inhuman mining industry are highlighted. Similarly, the emotional and strong tone is subdued, making the audience want to relate to the unfortunate miners forced to mine at the Witenoom asbestos mine because their health is jeopardised.

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Both "There'll be food on the table tonight" and "There'll be pay in your pocket tonight" are phrases used in the first stanza to emphasise how the mine workers toil day and night for a dinner on the table and a pay. The line "My gut is wrenched out, it is..." in stanza 2 emphasises that the conditions under which the workers must work are exhausting. Similarly, "Yell out at night and there's a reply of bruised silence" elaborates on how desolate the mine is, as when he yells out, the 'bruised silence' is referred to as the pain he yields when mining, as is the pain yielded by the other miners when they mine out the area. "The screen is no comfort; I can't speak my sentence" conveys that the miners are suffering and are unable to work as easily. Another phrase from the fourth stanza is "caught at the junction still waiting for medicine," which means that the workers who toil day and night have been afflicted by the mine's dire conditions and have been diagnosed with asbestosis, for which they require treatment but must wait in such a long line just to prevent any further outbreak from occurring.

In the fourth stanza, a line says, "The sweat of my brows keeps on feeding the engine." Another line that implies how tirelessly and unrelentingly the workers worked as they toiled day and night in the mine, referring to the miners as fuel to keep the industry going. Further, the 'engine' in this sentence is a metaphor for the company, and the 'fuel' are the employees. Further, the phrase "nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground" depicts that the company is heartless and does not care about the poor workers who toil day and night and have to deal with their bodies being infected with the disease, and the company is primarily recognised as a 'machine, but one that is heartless.' The line "Hope the crumbs can keep me for another night" implies that the miners rely heavily on what they find in the mine to put food on the table each night.

The phrases "In the end the rain comes down" and "Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town" in the song's final stanza highlight the fact that "asbestos" caused a once-thriving town in Wittenoom to become a ghost town, shutting down the entire town in the year 2000 and prohibiting anyone from entering the area, except for one person who was forced to move out in late 2018 and early 2019. Also, the rain washing the town is a metaphor for the asbestos clearing up the town and causing it to become isolated, as it is not actually washing the town. Throughout the song, the phrase "Who's going to save me?" is used as a repetition technique, bodily emphasising the point that the miners and mill workers must suffer for the company just to have "crumbs" and money in their pockets. Similarly, the song is meant to criticise and shame the mining industry for forcing workers to work day and night only to lose sight of how dangerous the situation is for minors who are trapped in a "cycle of death" and must deal with global warming. Finally, this is a song analysis of "Blue Sky Mine" by the Midnight Oils.