Video How Do Humans Live Live by Alan Cumming Letras

Alan Cumming - How Do Humans Live Live Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You handsome decent guys just love to tell us
That self-respect and self-restraint are good
Well smarmy words like that may just repel us
Please give us food or leave our neighborhood

You guys who think we ought to starve and still be nice
While you yourselves keep eating and grow fat
It might be better to serve up some beans and rice
Raise moral issues, maybe, after that

We see the banquet spread right there before us
We’ll take our fill and then we'll let you pull us

[Chorus]
So how do humans live
By eating humans
By boiling, frying, roasting, toasting those who they can
This life is possible because us humans avoid the sight of their own frying pans

So handsome decent guys, hear this again
We humans only live by killing men

[Verse 2]
You guys just love to regulate our sex lives
A penis here is bad but here it’s good
Well, we think that hypocrisy just wrecks lives
Please give us food or leave our neighborhood
We know you think we ought to study carefully
The model lives of you who dine and chat
It might be better to serve up some beans and rice
Raise moral issues, maybe, after that

We see the banquet spread right there before us
We’ll take our fill and then let you pull us

[Chorus]
So how do humans live
By eating humans
By boiling, frying, roasting, toasting those who they can
This life is possible because us humans avoid the sight of their own frying pans

So handsome decent guys hear this again
We humans only live by killing men