Phil Collins - Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore
Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore is a song in which Phil Collins was making a personal message.
The song was made in response to everyone around him getting a divorce, including his manager, friends and himself years before.
Collins later said that he sang this at Charles, Prince of Wales' 40th birthday party, not knowing that the Prince's divorce from his wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, would happen a short time later.
The Phil Collins Big Band played this on tour. In later years, Collins performed a re-arranged version of the song as a ballad as part of his Serious Hits… Live! tour, differing considerably from the original up-beat album version.
"You know, I was very happily married to Jill, my present wife, when I wrote it, but I had been divorced, my manager was getting divorced, a couple of good friends were getting divorced, and I thought, What's going on? Doesn't anybody stay together any more? The song came from that." – Phil Collins, stating his inspiration for the song "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore?", Playboy interview, October 1986.
The lyrcis:
You keep on walking so you don't fall down
It's the same old story
You keep on hiding so you can't be found
It's the same old story
Oh, but I know you, you're the one who ran
You know why, it's because you can, oh
But it's alright, 'cause I don't mind
I'm just trying to help
But I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
My friends keep falling and they can't get up
It's the same old story
Well, one says white and the other one black
It's the same old story
And I don't know why you keep emotions walled up
Your heart's on your sleeve, but your sleeve is rolled up
But it's alright, 'cause I don't mind
I'm just trying to help
But I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Things can change, from a misunderstanding
Nobody talks, nobody hears, oh oh oh
Makes me wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
You keep on looking for that higher ground
It's the same old story
Your glass is empty and the chips are down
It's the same old story
But I don't know why, your emotions walled up
Your heart's on your sleeve, but your sleeve is rolled up
But it's alright, 'cause I don't mind
I'm just trying to help
But I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
Oh, I wonder why, doesn't anybody stay together anymore
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