Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song What Keeps Mankind Alive? , by - Tom Waits. Release date: 31.12.1984
Song language: English
What Keeps Mankind Alive? |
| 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 its brilliance |
| In keeping its humanity repressed |
| For once you must try not to shirk the facts |
| Mankind is kept alive |
| By bestial acts |