What Keeps Mankind Alive Lyrics - Orphans - Tom Waits

(Weill/Brecht) 

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 once, the way the world is run 

However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell 

Food is the first thing, morals follow on 

So first make sure that those who are now starving 

Get proper helpings when we all start carving 

What keeps mankind alive? 

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What keeps mankind alive? 

The fact that millions are daily tortured 

Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed 

Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance 

In keeping its humanity repressed 

And for once you must try not to shriek the facts 

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts 

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