Industrial Disease-Dire Straits

[ti:Industrial Disease] [ar:Dire Straits] [al:Love Over Gold (Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:58.78]Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control [01:01.34]Somebody threw a spanner they threw him in the hole [01:05.59]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 [01:19.97]Goodness me could this be industrial disease ' [01:23.53]Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post [01:26.34]Refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most [01:29.78]Watchdog's got rabies the foreman got the fleas [01:32.85]Everyone's concerned about industrial disease [01:36.03]There's panic on the switchboard tongue is in knots [01:39.34]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 [01:47.78] [02:01.22]Yeah now the work force is disgusted down tools and walks [02:05.28]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 [02:14.72]On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse [02:18.16]Philosophy is useless theology is worse [02:21.22]History boils over there's an Economics freeze [02:24.41]Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease [02:40.16]Doctor Parkinson declared "I'm not surprised to see you here [02:44.53]You've got smokers cough from smoking [02:46.97]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 [02:59.66]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 [03:22.16]They got free speech tourists police in trucks [03:25.72]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 [03:31.97]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 [03:51.41]Give you Rule Brittania gassy beer page three [03:54.41]Two weeks in Espania and Sunday striptease [03:57.97]Meanwhile the first Jesus says "I'll cure it soon [04:01.16]Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons" [04:04.10]The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees [04:07.41]How come Jesus gets industrial disease [04:11.35] [04:18.54]