(A dark parody of Depeche Mode’s “People Are People”)

[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 we’re different villages, and we’re different farms
Different people have different harms
It’s obvious you fear me, though I’ve done nothing wrong
I’ve never even met you, so what could I have done?

[Pre-Chorus]
I can’t 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
“Good people who refused the dead were first to die”

Parents killed their babies, or gave their flesh with grace
When the living begged for meat from the cold embrace
Doctors wrote their letters: “I have not yet begun…
But I’m not sure I won’t be one by the time this reaches you, my son.”

[Bridge]
Now you’re digging, and you’re scraping, and you’re fighting over bones
In the frozen villages where mercy’s overthrown
Help me understand
What turns a man
Into a beast again

[Chorus – 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 people…

(Fade with distant, desperate choral echoes: “Help me understand… help me understand…”)