What Keeps Mankind Alive

What Keeps Mankind Alive -Tom Waits

Written by ：Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill

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

What keeps mankind alive

The fact that millions are daily tortured

Stifled punished silenced and oppressed

Mankind can keep alive thanks to it's brilliance

In keeping it's humanity repressed

And for once you must try not to shriek the facts

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts