Warning lights are flashing down at Quality Control,
someone faked a BESR 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 tumbling 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.
The batmaker was crucified for sleeping at his post,
they're refusing to be pacified, it's him they blame the most.
The watchdog's got rabies, the foreman's got fleas,
and everyone's concerned about Industrial Disease.
There's panic on the switchboard, tongues are tied in knots,
some come out in sympathy, some come out in spots.
Some blame the management,some the employees,
But everybody knows it's the Industrial Disease.
The work force is disgusted - they are taking walks
innocence is injured, experience just talks.
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees,
that these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'.
On ABC and CBS they talk about the curse
Logic is just useless - the science is even worse.
History boils over - there's an economics freeze
We know whats really happening - an "Industrial Disease".