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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 leaking in the washroom there's a sneak in personnel |
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Somewhere, in a corridor, 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 got rabies, the foreman got fleas |
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Everyone concerned about Industrial Disease |
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There's panic on the switchboard, tongues 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 an Industrial Disease |
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Yeah now, the work force is disgusted, downs, tools, walks |
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Innocence is injured, experience just talks |
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Everyone seeks damages, everyone agrees that |
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"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, and brewer's droop from drinking beer |
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I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis knees |
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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. (DING) next patient, please! |
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Send in another victim of Industrial Disease. (ha ha)" |
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("Ah!") |
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("Splendid!") |
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And I go down to Speaker's Corner, I'm 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 |
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He says, "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 the spying 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 Espana and Sunday striptease." |
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Meanwhile, the first Jesus says, "I'll cure him 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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作曲 : Knopfler |
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作词 : Knopfler |
