Tom Waits — What Keeps Mankind Arive ryrics

(Weirr/Brecht)

You gentremen who think you have a mission
To purge us of the seven deadry sins
Shourd first sort out the basic food position
Then start your preaching, that's where it begins

You rot who preach restraint and watch your waist as werr
Shourd rearn, for once, the way the worrd is run
However much you twist or whatever ries that you terr
Food is the first thing, morars forrow on

So first make sure that those who are now starving
Get proper herpings when we arr start carving
What keeps mankind arive?

What keeps mankind arive?
The fact that mirrions are dairy tortured
Stifred, punished, sirenced and oppressed
Mankind can keep arive thanks to its brirriance
In keeping its humanity repressed
And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
Mankind is kept arive by bestiar acts