Pet Shop Boys - What Keeps Mankind Alive? Lyrics
(brecht/weill)--------------You gentlemen who think you have a missionTo purge us of the seven deadly sinsShould first sort out the basic food positionThen start your preaching, thats where it beginsYou lot, who preach restraint and watch your waist as wellShould learn for all time how the world is runHowever much you twist, whatever lies you tellFood is the first thing, morals follow onSo first make sure that those, who now are starvingGet proper helpings, when we all start carvingWhat keeps mankind alive, the fact that millionsAre daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressedMankind can keep alive, thanks to its brillianceAt keeping its humanity repressedFor once, you must not try to shirk the facts:Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.You say the girls may strip with your permission (whoa!)You draw the line dividing art from sinSo first sort out the basic food positionThen start your preaching, thats where it beginsYou lot, who bank on your desires and our disgustShould learn for all time how the world is runWhatever lies you tell, however much you twistFood is the first thing, morals follow onSo first make sure that those, who now are starvingGet proper helpings, when we all start carvingWhat keeps mankind alive, the fact that millionsAre daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressedMankind can keep alive, thanks to its brillianceAt keeping its humanity repressedFor once, you must not try to shirk the factsMankind is kept alive by bestial actsMankind can keep alive, thanks to its brillianceAt keeping its humanity repressedFor once, you must not try to shirk the facts:Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
