(Weill/Brecht)You gentlemen who think you have a missionTo purge us of the seven deadly sinsShould first sort out the basic food positionThen start your preaching, that's where it beginsYou lot who preach restraint and watch your waist as wellShould learn, for once, the way the world is runHowever much you twist or whatever lies that you tellFood is the first thing, morals follow onSo first make sure that those who are now starvingGet proper helpings when we all start carvingWhat keeps mankind alive?What keeps mankind alive?The fact that millions are daily torturedStifled, punished, silenced and oppressedMankind can keep alive thanks to its brillianceIn keeping its humanity repressedAnd for once you must try not to shriek the factsMankind is kept alive by bestial acts
