Industrial Disease

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Composição de: Mark Knopfler
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 meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell
 there's leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel 
somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
 goodness me could this be Industrial Disease?

 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 

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

 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

 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
 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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