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Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control |
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Somebody threw a spanner, they threw him in the hole |
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There's rumors 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, they're trying to trace the smell |
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There's a leakin' in the washroom, there's a sneakin' personnel |
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Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze |
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Goodness me, could this be industrial disease ?' |
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Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post |
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Refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most |
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Watchdog's got rabies, the foreman got the fleas |
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Everyone's concerned about industrial disease |
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There's panic on the switchboard, tongue is in knots |
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Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots |
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Some blame the management, some the employees |
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Everybody knows it's the industrial disease |
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Yeah, now the work force is disgusted down tools and 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 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 industrial disease |
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Doctor Parkinson declared, "I'm not surprised to see you here |
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You've got smokers cough from smoking |
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Brewer's droop from drinking beer |
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I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis wheeze |
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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, "You are depressed |
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I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest |
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Come back and see me later, next patient please |
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Send in another victim of industrial disease" |
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And I go down to speaker's corner, I'm a thunderstruck |
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They 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 singing a protest song, he says |
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They wanna have a war 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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Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three |
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Two weeks in Espania and Sunday striptease |
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Meanwhile the first Jesus says, "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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