What Keeps Mankind Alive by Tom Waits
What Keeps Mankind Alive by Tom Waits

What Keeps Mankind Alive

Tom Waits * Track #37 On Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

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Album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

What Keeps Mankind Alive by Tom Waits

Performed by
Tom Waits
Produced by
Kathleen Brennan & Tom Waits
Writed by
Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht
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This is a version of the 1928 agitprop socialist anthem written by Bertolt Brecht with composer Kurt Weill for their musical drama, The Threepenny Opera.

William S. Burroughs also did a version:

What Keeps Mankind Alive Lyrics

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 once the way the world is run
However much you twist or whatever lies that you tell
Food is the first thing morals follow on

So first make sure that those who are now starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving
What keeps mankind alive

What keeps mankind alive
The fact that millions
Are daily tortured stifled punished silenced and oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
In keeping its humanity repressed
For once you must try not to shirk the facts
Mankind is kept alive
By bestial acts

What Keeps Mankind Alive Q&A

Who wrote What Keeps Mankind Alive's ?

What Keeps Mankind Alive was written by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht.

Who produced What Keeps Mankind Alive's ?

What Keeps Mankind Alive was produced by Kathleen Brennan & Tom Waits.

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