name that tune

[wobbegong]

Warning lights are flashing down at quality control
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
There's rumours 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 wash-room there's a sneak in personnel
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
goodness me could this be ___________ disease?

The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
They're refusing to be pacified its him they blame the most
The watchdogs got rabies the foreman's got fleas
And everyone's concerned about ___________ 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
And everybody knows its the ___________ disease

The work force is disgusted downs tools walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean ___________ disease

Doctor Parkinson declared I'm not surprised to see you here
You've got smokers cough from smoking, brewers droop from drinking beer
I don't know how you came to get the Betty Davis knees
But worst of all young man you've got ___________ disease
He wrote me a prescription he said you are depressed
But I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later - next patient please
Send in another victim of ___________ disease

I go down to speakers corner I'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 protest singer singing a protest song - he says
they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop ___________ 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 Id cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons
The other ones on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets ___________ disease

Nope, sorry. I'm guessing it's got 4 syllables in order to scan properly, but I really haven't a clue (well, obviously I have, a flippin' big one. There couldn't actually be a bigger clue than the entire lyrics of the song with one word omitted and the name of the artist).

[realityhack]

Venereal

Nice try.

Ok, well, I couldn't really give you enough of a clue! It's 'Industrial Disease', from the album 'Love Over Gold' by Dire Straits.

New one then:

And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me

[kali]

*ahem*

My turn...

Innocence and lies don't make a perfect match
Leave your door unlatched
I know a word can be untrue
And yet still move you

All the time they bring their friends 'round
Dress you up, show you up
And all the time they told you it was true
Well I'll believe you now

[wobbegong]

*ahem*

My turn...

Innocence and lies don't make a perfect match
Leave your door unlatched
I know a word can be untrue
And yet still move you

All the time they bring their friends 'round
Dress you up, show you up
And all the time they told you it was true
Well I'll believe you now

It's your turn when you guess correctly.

[realityhack]

It's your turn when you guess correctly.

Yep. The latest one's quite easy though...

[wobbegong]

Yep. The latest one's quite easy though...

Is it?? Not an inkling, I'm afraid.

[kali]

It's your turn when you guess correctly.

*pout*

[realityhack]

More lyrics... this time from the beginning of the song...

You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
You put me on a shelf
And kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself
You can only blame me

[realityhack]

This is a very, very famous band indeed, plays large, sell-out gigs. The lead (and pretty much solo) vocalist is male.

[wobbegong]

More lyrics... this time from the beginning of the song...

You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see
Where I was going wrong
You put me on a shelf
And kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself
You can only blame me

You're only making it worse!!

Come on kali, now's your chance, double quick.