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What Keeps Mankind Alive?
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Tom Waits
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You gentlemen who think you have a mission
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To purge us of the seven deadly sins
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Should first sort out the basic food position
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Then start your preaching, that's where it begins
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You lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as well
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Should learn, for once, the way the world is run
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However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell
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Food is the first thing, morals follow on
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So first make sure that those who are now starving
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Get proper helpings when we all start carving
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What keeps mankind alive?
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What keeps mankind alive?
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The fact that millions are daily tortured
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Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed
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Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
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In keeping its humanity repressed
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And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
Tom Waits - "Hold On" (ANTI-)
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