Somebody Told the Truth Songtext
von Peter Case

The courthouse emptied out
The jurors all went home
The lawyers eased their guilty hearts
The cops were on their own
The soldiers left their camps
The weapons lay in heaps
The generals disappeared
The prisoners were free

′Cause somebody
Somebody
Somebody
They told the truth to somebody
Somebody told the truth


Well, the theaters emptied out
The radios went dead
Stadiums were silent
And not a word was said
The dots were all connected
The lines were barely drawn
The secret lie kept hidden
Were half-died in the dawn

'Cause somebody
Somebody told
Somebody told somebody
They told the truth
Somebody

Somebody told
They told the truth to somebody
Somebody told the truth
Yeah, somebody told the truth
Yeah, somebody told the truth
Yeah
Yeah


The starving men and women
For once had got their fill
The children of the highway
Were singing on the hill
The politicians vanished
They must have come by plane
The clandestine policemen
Were out there in the rain

I sat down on the curbstone
I rubbed my eyes and coughed
I rubbed my wrists and ankles
And I thanked the Lord above

Somebody
Somebody told
They told the truth to somebody
Somebody told the truth
Somebody
Somebody told
They told the truth to somebody
Somebody told the truth
Somebody

Somebody told
They told the truth to somebody
Yeah, somebody
Somebody told
Told the truth to somebody
Somebody told the truth
They told the truth

They told the truth
Yeah, they told the truth
Somebody