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Artist/Band: 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


Album Lyrics: Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]


Tom Waits
"Orphans [Fold-Out Digipak With 24-Page Booklet] [2006]"


1. Bottom Of The World
2. Lucinda
4. Buzz Fledderjohn
5. Long Way Home
6. Little Drop Of Poison
7. Shiny Things
9. What Keeps Mankind Alive
10. Children's Story
11. Books Of Moses
12. Poor Little Lamb
13. Road To Peace
14. Walk Away