Rock - 80's - 1982

as made famous by Dire Straits

Original songwriter : Mark Knopfler

License courtesy of : Universal Music Publishing UK

This title is a cover of Industrial Disease as made famous by Dire Straits

Now warnin' lights are flashing down at quality control
Somebody threw a spanner they threw him in the hole
There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
There's a meeting in the boardroom
They're trying to trace the smell
There's a leakin' in the washroom there's a sneakin' personnel
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
Goodness me could this be industrial disease
Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
Refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most
Watchdog's got rabies the foreman got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
There's panic on the switchboard tongue is in knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
Everybody knows it's the industrial disease
Yeah now the work force is disgusted down tools an' walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees that
These are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over there's an economic's freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease
Doctor parkinson declared I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smokers cough from smoking
Brewer's droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis wheeze but
Worst of all young man you've got industrial disease
He wrote me a prescription he said you are depressed
I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later next patient please
Send in another victim of industrial disease, ha ha ha ha
Ah, split it
And I go down to speaker's corner I'm a thunderstruck
They got free speech tourists police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer he's singing a protest song he says
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
Give you Rule Brittania gassy beer page three
Two weeks in Espania and sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first Jesus says
I'll cure it soon
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons
The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease

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