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Tom Waits
Lyrics for Song: What Keeps Mankind Alive
Lyrics for Album: Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]
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
Your 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 shrink the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
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| Album Lyrics: Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006] |
Tom Waits
"Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]"
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