Industrial Disease Lyrics - Mark Knopfler

Warning lights are flashing down at quality control 

Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole 

There's rumours 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 leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel 

Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze 

'goodness me could it be industrial disease? ' 

The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post 

They're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most 

The watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got the fleas 

And everyone's concerned about industrial disease 

There's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots 

Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots 

Some blame the management some the employees 

And everybody knows it's the industrial disease 

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The work force is disgusted downs tools and 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 economics 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 knees 

But worst of all young man you've got industrial disease' 

He wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed 

But 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' 

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I go down to speaker's corner I'm 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 singing a protest song - he says 

'they wanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees 

They wanna have a war so they can keep their factories 

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 you energy incarcerate your mind 

They give you rule brittania, gassy beer, page three 

Two weeks in espana and sunday striptease' 

Meanwhile the first jesus says 'i'd 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