Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? [With Allen Toussaint] Songtext

von Elvis Costello

We may seem happy like everything's alright
From the outside looking in
Everything's uptight
But deep down inside we're covering up the pain
It's an old thing
It's a soul thing
But it's areal thing

Pray tell what's gonna happen to brother
Who's gonna help him get further
One another

There's old Dude standing on the corner
Waiting for a fox to pass
The only thing he's got to go by
Is this is where I saw her last
And there's old John, two dollars in his pocket
Talking loud and thinks he's rich
And look for little fool, too cool to go to school
Get a job, in two days he quits

Chorus
Pray tell what's gonna happen to brother
Who's gonna help him get further
One another
Is that the truth?
Yeah, you're right

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Mama get up early, early in the morning
Papa's already gone
Going out working for half of what he's worth now
You know that it's wrong
What happened to the Liberty Bell heard so much about?
Did it really ding-dong?
It must have dinged wrong
It didn't ding long

Chorus

Repeat 3rd verse

Chorus

Yeah, yeah ...

Did it really ding-dong?
It didn't ding long