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[00:58.79]Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control
[01:01.35]Somebody threw a spanner, they threw him in the hole
[01:05.60]There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
[01:08.41]Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
[01:10.35]There's a meeting in the boardroom, they're trying to trace the smell
[01:13.47]There's a leakin' in the washroom, there's a sneakin' personnel
[01:16.72]Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
[01:19.98]Goodness me, could this be industrial disease ?'
[01:23.54]Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
[01:26.35]Refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most
[01:29.79]Watchdog's got rabies, the foreman got the fleas
[01:32.85]Everyone's concerned about industrial disease
[01:36.04]There's panic on the switchboard, tongue is in knots
[01:39.35]Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots
[01:42.47]Some blame the management, some the employees
[01:45.66]Everybody knows it's the industrial disease
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[02:01.23]Yeah, now the work force is disgusted down tools and walks
[02:05.29]Innocence is injured, experience just talks
[02:08.47]Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
[02:11.54]That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
[02:14.73]On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
[02:18.16]Philosophy is useless, theology is worse
[02:21.23]History boils over, there's an Economics freeze
[02:24.41]Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease
[02:40.17]Doctor Parkinson declared, "I'm not surprised to see you here
[02:44.54]You've got smokers cough from smoking
[02:46.98]Brewer's droop from drinking beer
[02:48.60]I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis wheeze
[02:51.10]But worst of all young man you've got industrial disease"
[02:53.60]He wrote me a prescription he said, "You are depressed
[02:56.35]I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
[02:59.67]Come back and see me later, next patient please
[03:02.91]Send in another victim of industrial disease"
[03:18.54]And I go down to speaker's corner, I'm a thunderstruck
[03:22.17]They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
[03:25.73]Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
[03:28.85]There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song, he says
[03:31.98]They wanna have a war to keep their factories
[03:35.04]They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
[03:38.29]They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
[03:41.54]They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
[03:44.79]They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
[03:47.85]They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
[03:51.42]Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
[03:54.42]Two weeks in Espania and Sunday striptease
[03:57.98]Meanwhile the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon
[04:01.16]Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"
[04:04.11]The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees
[04:07.42]How come Jesus gets industrial disease?
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