ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>What Keeps Mankind Alive? Lyrics</title><!-- saved from url=(0029)http://www.ripcat.idps.co.uk/ --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="description" content="Tom Waits Silver Cloud Lounge - Bestowing information about Tom Waits to the musically appreciative populace"> <META NAME="keywords" content="Tom Waits, tom waits, tomwaits, TomWaits, Waits Tom, Silver Cloud Lounge, Closing Time, Heart Of Saturday Night, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack And Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Raindogs, Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine, Black Rider, Mule Variations, Early Years, One From The Heart, Night On Earth, Beautiful Maladies, Bounced Cheques, Asylum Years, Nighthawks At The Diner, Bigtime, Holly Cole, Chuck E Weiss, Tom, Waits, "> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="notepad"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT= "paul@webmartin.co.uk"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright © 2001 WebMartin Software Solutions"> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND="../graphics/background.jpg" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1" VLINK="BLUE"> <LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="../style.css"> <SCRIPT><!-- defaultStatus = document.title; //--></SCRIPT> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="90%" border=2 BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1"> <TR align=middle bgColor=gray><TH><FONT color=#deddd1 size=6> What Keeps Mankind Alive?</FONT><BR><FONT color=#deddd1 size=2>(Weill/Brecht 1928) </FONT></TH></TR> <TR vAlign=top align=middle><TD width="50%"> You gentlemen who think you have a mission<br> To purge us of the seven deadly sins<br> Should first sort out the basic food position<br> Then start your preaching, that s where it begins<br> <br> You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well<br> Should learn, for once, the way the world is run<br> However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell<br> Food is the first thing, morals follow on<br> <br> So first make sure that those who are now starving<br> Get proper helpings when we all start carving<br> What keeps mankind alive?<br> <br> What keeps mankind alive?<br> The fact that millions are daily tortured<br> Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed<br> Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance<br> In keeping its humanity repressed<br> And for once you must try not to shriek the facts<br> Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts </TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="LIGHTGREY"><TD><A HREF="reviews.htm">Reviews</A></TD></tr> </TABLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" SRC="../javascript/waitsnav.js"></SCRIPT> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>