Industrial Disease
Key: AEnglish
Intro
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Verse
ANow warning lights are flashing down in 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.
Chorus
There's a Dmeeting in the boardroom, they're trying to trace the smell, C Bm
There's a Aleaking in the washroom, there's a sneak in DPersonnel.
ESomewhere in a corridor someone was heard to sneeze.
AGoodness me, goodness me, Industrial Disease!
Verse
AThe 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.
Chorus
There's Dpanic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots. C Bm
Some Acome out in sympathy some come out in spots,
ESome blame the management some the employees.
AAnd everyone knows it's the industrial disease
Instrumental
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Verse
AThe workforce 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 squeeeze".
Chorus
On DITV and BBC they talk about the curse. C Bm
APhilosophy is useless, theology is worse,
EHistory boils over, there's an economics freeze;
ASociologists invent words that mean "Industrial Disease"
Instrumental
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Verse
ADoctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here.
You've got smoker's 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"
Chorus
He Dwrote me a prescription, he said "You are depressed, C Bm
But AI'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest.
ECome back and see me later -- next patient please!
ASend in another victim of Industrial Disease."
Instrumental
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Verse
I Ago 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
Chorus
"They Dwanna have a war so they can keep us on our knees. C Bm
They Awanna have a war so they can keep their factories.
EThey wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese.
AThey wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease!
Verse
AThey're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind.
They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind.
They give you Rule Britannia, gassy beer, page three,
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease."
Chorus
DMeanwhile the first Jesus says "I'd cure it soon, C Bm
AAbolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons."
EThe other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees.
AHow come Jesus gets Industrial Disease?
Instrumental
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Outro
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