What Keeps Mankind Alive?

BERTOLT BRECHT, EUGEN BERTHOLD BRECHT, KURT WEILL

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 your 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

[Chorus]
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 its brilliance
At keeping its 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
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

[Chorus]

Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance
At keeping its humanity repressed
For once, you must not try to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts

Trivia about the song What Keeps Mankind Alive? by Pet Shop Boys

On which albums was the song “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” released by Pet Shop Boys?
Pet Shop Boys released the song on the albums “Alternative” in 1995 and “Introspective: Further Listening 1988 – 1989” in 2001.
Who composed the song “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” by Pet Shop Boys?
The song “What Keeps Mankind Alive?” by Pet Shop Boys was composed by BERTOLT BRECHT, EUGEN BERTHOLD BRECHT, KURT WEILL.

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