What Keeps Mankind Alive? - Tom Waits

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