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