Now 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
Caretaker was crucified for
sleeping at his post
Refusing to be pacified
It's him they blame the most
Watchdogs got rabies
The foreman's got the fleas
Everyone's concerned about
Industrial Disease
There's panic on the swichboard
Tongues are 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
Yeah now the work force is
disgusted downs tools walks
Innocence is injured
talks
damages
that
these are classic symptoms
of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC
They talk about the curse
useless
Theology is worse
History boils over
There's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words
that mean lndustrial Disease
Doctor Parkinson declared
l'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smoker's cough from smoking
Brewers 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
He wrote me a prescription
He said you are depressed
But l'm glad came 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
Ha ha ha
Ha
Splendid
I go down to Speaker's Corner
l'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 prost singer he's singing
a protest song
He says they wanna have a war
to keep their factories
They wanna have a war
to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war
to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war
to stop lndustrial 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'll cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and
Friday afternoons
The other one's out on hunger strike
He's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets
Industrial Disease