Tom Waits - 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
And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

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
And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

Tom Waits- What Keeps Mankind Alive

A lovely montage for all the jitterbug boys and girls.

Lyrics- Tom Waits- What Keeps Mankind Alive

Lyrics to: What keeps mankind Alive By: Tom Waits this makes up for the other Waits video that WMG took down...... pricks.

Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive - Orphans (Bastards)

Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive - Orphans (Bastards)

Tom Waits - What Keeps Man Alive - Orphans .

Neat and truthful one from Mr. Waits off the Orphans, etc... album. I'll include the lyrics below, because they get a bit lost in the music. It's goods stuff:). You gentlemen who think you...

Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive?

From the album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, originally recorded in 1985. The song is a cover of an excerpt of the piece "Wovon Lebt Der Mensch?" from the 1928 play The Threepenny...

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