Pet Shop Boys - 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 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
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