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1  Now warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control   Warning          lights are flashing down at Quality Control 1
2  Somebody threw a spanner,      they threw him in the hole   somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole 2
3  There's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town   there's rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town 3
4  Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down   somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down 4
5                                                                                     there's a meeting in the boardroom they're trying to trace the smell 5
6  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        6
7  There's a leakin' in the washroom, there's a sneakin' personnel           somewhere             in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze 7
8  Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze   'goodness me could this be Industrial Disease?             8
1  Goodness me, could this be industrial disease ?'   1
9                                                                  The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post 9
10  Caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post                     they're refusing to be pacified it's him they blame the most 10
11  Refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most                                                                                                 the watchdog's got rabies the foreman's got fleas 11
12  Watchdog's got rabies, the foreman got the fleas   and everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease             12
13  Everyone's concerned about industrial disease                                  there's panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots 13
14                                                               some come out in sympathy some come out in spots 14
15  There's panic on the switchboard, tongue is in knots   some blame     the management some the employees        15
16  Some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots   and everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease                 16
2  Some blame the management, some the employees   2
17  Everybody knows it's the industrial disease                      The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks 17
18                                                     innocence is injured experience just talks 18
19  Yeah, now the work force is disgusted down tools and walks           everyone seeks damages                                          and everyone agrees 19
20  Innocence is injured, experience just talks                          that these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze' 20
21  Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees                            on ITV          and BBC they talk about the curse 21
22  That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze   philosophy is useless theology is worse                       22
23                                                          history boils over there's an economics freeze 23
24  On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse   sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'             24
3  Philosophy is useless, theology is worse   3
25  History boils over, there's an Economics freeze                   Doctor Parkinson declared 'I'm not surprised to see you here 25
26  Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease                                you've got smokers cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer 26
27                                                                       I don't know how you came to get the Betty Davis knees 27
28  Doctor Parkinson declared, "I'm not surprised to see you here   but worst of all young man you've got Industrial Disease' 28
29  You've got smokers cough from smoking                               he wrote me a prescription he said 'you are depressed 29
30  Brewer's droop from drinking beer                                                 but I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest 30
31  I don't know how you came to get the Bette Davis wheeze   come back and see me later - next patient please                31
32  But worst                  of all young man you've got industrial disease"   send in another victim of Industrial Disease'                                         32
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33  He wrote me a prescription he said, "You are depressed   I go down to Speaker's Corner I'm thunderstruck                 33
34  I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest   they got free speech, tourists, police in trucks                              34
35  Come back and see me later, next patient please              two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong 35
36  Send in another victim of industrial disease"                      there's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says 36
37                                                              'they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees 37
38  And I go down to speaker's corner, I'm a thunderstruck                               they wanna have                                    a war to keep their factories 38
39  They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks                     they wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese 39
40  Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong   they wanna have a war to stop Industrial Disease            40
41  There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song, he says   they're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind 41
42                                                             they wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind 42
43  They wanna have a war to keep their factories   they give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three 43
44  They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees   two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease'                     44
45  They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese   meanwhile the first Jesus says 'I'd cure it soon           45
46  They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease   abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons'                            46
47                                                                        the other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees 47
48  They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind   how come Jesus gets Industrial Disease                              48
5  They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind   5
6  Give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three   6
7  Two weeks in Espania and Sunday striptease   7
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9  Meanwhile the first Jesus says, "I'll cure it soon   9
10  Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"   10
11  The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees   11
12  How come Jesus gets industrial disease?   12
      


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