What Keeps Mankind Alive Lyrics

Pet Shop Boys What Keeps Mankind Alive

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
You lot, who preach restraint and watch you waist as well
Should learn for all time how the world is run
However much you twist, whatever lies you tell
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
          So first make sure that those, who now are starving
          Get proper helpings, when we all start carving
     What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions
     Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
     Mankind can keep alive, thanks to it's brilliance
     At keeping it's humanity repressed
     For once, you must not try to shirk the facts:
     Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
You say the girls may strip with your permission (whoa!)
You draw the line dividing art from sin
So first sort out the basic food position
Then start your preaching, that's where it begins
You lot, who bank on your desires and our disgust
Should learn for all time how the world is run
Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist
Food is the first thing, morals follow on
          So first make sure that those, who now are starving
          Get proper helpings, when we all start carving
     What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions
     Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
     Mankind can keep alive, thanks to it's brilliance
     At keeping it's humanity repressed
     For once, you must not try to shirk the facts
     Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
     Mankind can keep alive, thanks to it's brilliance
     At keeping it's humanity repressed
     For once, you must not try to shirk the facts:
     Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts