Help Yourself

(album: Third Annual Pipe Dream - 1974)

If somebody told you a lie
And you found out about it, would you let it slip by?
Would you just turn the other cheek
If somebody put your business out in the street?
Would you fight it, try to right it
Or pull down your shades and try to hide it?

If sombody's ripping you off
And you don't try to stop 'em then it's your own fault
Nobody gets involved
But everybody wants to get the problem solved
I ain't lying, you ain't trying
So don't you let me hear you crying

Help (help) help (help) help
You know you got to help yourself
You say help (help) help (help) help
And I say, you got to help yourself, ooh

Yeah, that's right

If somebody told you a lie
And you found out about it, would you let it slip by?
Would you just turn the other cheek
If somebody put your business out in the street?
Would you fight it, try to right it
Or pull down your shades and try to hide it?

Help (help) help (help) help
Don't you know you got to help yourself?
You say help (help) help (help) help
And I say you got to help yourself