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- #From: tzitron@loria.fr (Vincent Tzitron)
- {t:Industrial Disease}
- {st:Dire Straits}
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- {c:Intro:}
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- [A]Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
- somebody threw a spanner and 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 [D]meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell
- there's [A]leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel
- [E]somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to [D]sneeze
- 'g[A]oodness me could this be Industrial Disease?
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- 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 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'
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- 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 Betty 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 to keep us on our knees
- they wanna have a war to keep their factories
- they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
- 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
- they wanna sap your 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 on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
- how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease
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