Dire Straits - Industrial Disease

Industrial Disease

Warning lights are flashing down the Quality Control
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw himin the hole
There is rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
There is a meeting in the boardroom theyre trying to trace the smell
There is leaking in the washroom there is 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
Theyre refusing to be pacified its himthey blame the most
The watchdogs got rabies the foremans got the fleas
And everyones concerned about Industrial Disease
There is panic on the switchboard tongues in knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
Everybody knows its the Industrial Disease
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 is an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean Industrial Disease
Doctor Parkinson declared Imnot suprised to see you here
Youve got smokers cough from smoking Brewers droop from drinking beer
I dont know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees
But worst of all young man youve got Industrial Disease
He wrote me a prescription he said you are drepressed
But Imglad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later - next patient please
Send in another victimof Industrial Disease
I go down to Speakers Corner Imthunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say theyre Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There is a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
They wanna have a war so they can keep their factories
They wanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease
Theyre pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap you energy incarcerate your mind
They gi have you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first Jesus says Id cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons
The others out on hunger strike hes dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?