My elephant brother is fat/He has water in his trunk

When my son was a five year old he enjoyed the song that went on like this "The elephant brother is fat/He has a lot of water in his trunk". He now misses the elephant brother dearly. The elephant brother continues to be fat but malnourished and he is now a doddering old idiot waiting to depart from the scene. There is no water in his trunk. Why cannot we have the elephant brother around all the time ,he asks trying to bring back the days when the elephant brother was always at hand.

My own elephant brother is on his death-bed waiting for the Ganga water drops to be put in his mouth before he finally calls it a day.