《What Keeps Mankind Alive》歌词

歌手： Tom Waits

时长： 02:10

What Keeps Mankind Alive - Tom Waits[00:00:00]

Written by：Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill[00:00:03]

You gentlemen who think you have a mission[00:00:15]

To purge us of the seven deadly sins[00:00:21]

Should first sort out the basic food position[00:00:27]

Then start your preaching[00:00:32]

That's where it begins[00:00:34]

You lot who preach restraint[00:00:38]

And watch your waist as well[00:00:40]

Should learn for once[00:00:44]

The way the world is run[00:00:45]

However much you twist[00:00:49]

Or whatever lies that you tell[00:00:51]

Food is the first thing morals follow on[00:00:55]

So first make sure that those who are now starving[00:01:01]

Get proper helpings when we all start carving[00:01:06]

What keeps mankind alive[00:01:14]

What keeps mankind alive[00:01:18]

The fact that millions are daily tortured[00:01:24]

Stifled punished silenced and oppressed[00:01:29]

Mankind can keep alive thanks to it's brilliance[00:01:33]

In keeping it's humanity repressed[00:01:41]

And for once you must try not to shriek the facts[00:01:48]

Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts[00:02:01]

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