《What Keeps Mankind Alive》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:32] Then start your preaching

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

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

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

[00:00:44] Should learn for once

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

[00:00:49] However much you twist

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

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

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

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

[00:01:14] What keeps mankind alive

[00:01:18] What keeps mankind alive

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

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

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

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

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

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