Industrial Disease – Dire Straits
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INDUSTRIAL DISEASE (Dire Straits)
(ex "Love over Gold" album - 1982)
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Now warning lights are flashing down in quality control.
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Somebody threw a spanner (and) they threw it 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,
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they're trying to trace the smell.
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There's a leaking in the washroom,
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there's a sneak in Personnel.
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Somewhere in the corridor someone was heard to sneeze.
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Goodness me, could this be Industrial Disease?
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The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post.
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For 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 concerned about Industrial Disease.
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There's panic on the switchboard,
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tongues in knots.
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Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots.
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Some blame the management 'n some the employees.
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Everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease.
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Yeah, now the workforce is disgusted, downs tools, 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
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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 "Ind-
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-ustrial Disease"
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Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here.
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You've got smoker's cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer.
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I dunno 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
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"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: (DING!) 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 a-thunderstruck.
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They've 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, he's singin' a protest song - he says
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"They wanna have a war
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to keep their factories.
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They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees.
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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 your energy, incarcerate your mind.
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They give you "Rule Britannia", gassy beer, Page Three,
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two weeks in Espana and a Sunday striptease.
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Meanwhile the first Jesus says
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"I'll 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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More A chord to go out with effects...
:Charted by Bustopher the Busker - [email protected]