Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
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Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
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There's rumours in the loading bay and anger in the town
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Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
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There's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell
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There's leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel
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Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
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'Goodness me could it be Industrial Disease?'
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The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
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They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most
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The watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got the fleas
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And everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease
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There's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots
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Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
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Some blame the management some the employees
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And everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease
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The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks
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Innocence is injured experience just talks
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Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
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That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'
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On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
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Philosophy is useless theology is worse
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History boils over there's an economics freeze
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Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'
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Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised to see you here
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You've got smokers cough from smoking brewer's droop from drinking beer
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I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
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But worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease'
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He wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed
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But I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
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Come back and see me later - next patient please
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Send in another victim of Industrial Disease'
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I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck
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They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
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Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong
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There's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
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'they wanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees
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They wanna have a war so they can keep their factories
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They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
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They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
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They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
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They wanna sap you energy incarcerate your mind
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They give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
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Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'
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Meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon
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Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons'
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The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees
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How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease
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Industrial Disease
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Mark Knopfler |