The song What Keeps Mankind Alive is performed by Tom Waits in the album named Orphans in the year 2006 .
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
Your 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
And for once you must try not to shrink the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
Tom Waits - Orphans
- Lie to Me
- LowDown
- 2:19
- Fish in the Jailhouse
- Bottom of the World
- Lucinda
- Ain't Goin' Down to the Well
- Lord I've Been Changed
- Puttin' on the Dog
- Road to Peace
- All the Time
- The Return of Jackie and Judy
- Walk Away
- Sea of Love
- Buzz Fledderjohn
- Rains on Me
- Bend Down the Branches
- You Can Never Hold Back Spring
- Long Way Home
- Widow's Grace
- Little Drop of Poison
- Shiny Things
- World Keeps Turning
- Tell It to Me
- Never Let Go
- Fannin Street
- Little Man
- It's Over
- If I Have to Go
- Goodnight Irene
- The Fall of Troy
- Take Care of All My Children
- Down There by the Train
- Danny Says
- Jayne's Blue Wish
- Young At Heart
- What Keeps Mankind Alive
- Children's Story
- Heigh Ho
- Army Ants
- Books of Moses
- Bone Chain
- Two Sisters
- First Kiss
- Dog Door
- Redrum
- Nirvana
- Home I'll Never Be
- Poor Little Lamb
- Altar Boy
- The Pontiac
- Spidey's Wild Ride
- King Kong
- On the Road