Industrial Disease

Industrial Disease 歌词

歌曲 Industrial Disease
歌手 Dire Straits
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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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