People Eat People
(A dark parody of Depeche Modeās āPeople Are Peopleā)
[Chorus] People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully? People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully?
[Verse 1] So weāre different villages, and weāre different farms Different people have different harms Itās obvious you fear me, though Iāve done nothing wrong Iāve never even met you, so what could I have done?
[Pre-Chorus] I canāt understand What makes a man Eat another man Help me understand
[Chorus] People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully? People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully?
[Verse 2] Stalin took the grain, sealed the borders tight Left the peasants dying in the endless night Mothers watched their children with a hollow eye āGood people who refused the dead were first to dieā
Parents killed their babies, or gave their flesh with grace When the living begged for meat from the cold embrace Doctors wrote their letters: āI have not yet begun⦠But Iām not sure I wonāt be one by the time this reaches you, my son.ā
[Bridge] Now youāre digging, and youāre scraping, and youāre fighting over bones In the frozen villages where mercyās overthrown Help me understand What turns a man Into a beast again
[Chorus ā slower, heavier] People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully? People eat people, so why should it be You and I should starve so awfully?
[Outro] Over two thousand sentenced⦠just for staying alive In the Bloodlands where humanity barely survived⦠People eat people⦠People eat peopleā¦
(Fade with distant, desperate choral echoes: āHelp me understand⦠help me understandā¦ā)
















