What Keeps Mankind Alive? Lyrics - Mirah

( Kurt Weil ) 

You gentlemen who think you have a mission 

To purge us of the seven deadly sins 

Should first sort out the basic food position 

Then start your preaching, that's where it begins 

You lot, who preach restraint and watch your waist as well 

Should learn for all time how the world is run 

However much you twist, whatever lies you tell 

Food is the first thing, morals follow on 

So first make sure that those, who now are starving 

Get proper helpings, when we all start carving 

What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions 

Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed 

Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance 

At keeping its humanity repressed 

For once, you must not try to shirk the facts: 

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. 

You say the girls may strip with your permission (whoa!) 

You draw the line dividing art from sin 

So first sort out the basic food position 

Then start your preaching, that's where it begins 

You lot, who bank on your desires and our disgust 

Should learn for all time how the world is run 

Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist 

Food is the first thing, morals follow on 

So first make sure that those, who now are starving 

Get proper helpings, when we all start carving 

What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions 

Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed 

Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance 

At keeping its humanity repressed 

For once, you must not try to shirk the facts 

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts 

Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance 

At keeping its humanity repressed 

For once, you must not try to shirk the facts: 

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts