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WHAT KEEPS MANKIND ALIVE?
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Pet Shop Boys
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(Brecht/Weill)
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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 all time how the world is run
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However much you twist, whatever lies 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 now are starving
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Get proper helpings, when we all start carving
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What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions
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Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
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Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance
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At keeping its humanity repressed
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For once, you must not try to shirk the facts:
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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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You say the girls may strip with your permission (whoa!)
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You draw the line dividing art from sin
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So 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 bank on your desires and our disgust
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Should learn for all time how the world is run
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Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist
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Food is the first thing, morals follow on
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So first make sure that those, who now are starving
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Get proper helpings, when we all start carving
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What keeps mankind alive, the fact that millions
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Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed
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Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance
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At keeping its humanity repressed
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For once, you must not try to shirk the facts
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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
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Mankind can keep alive, thanks to its brilliance
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At keeping its humanity repressed
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For once, you must not try to shirk the facts:
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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
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