Hold Back The River

Stop your pretending

Listen to what I've got to say

Now your head's went away

Only here for a day and that grave I just made

Is for me when I get paid, I get paid, yeah

Won't you wait a while, move to the blue

Sometimes people don't want to say

Old time dancers don't die that way

See that grave I've just made

It's for me when I get paid

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Do you love and surrender?

Sometimes I don't feel I can remember

I think it's fair to mention, yeah

About the days when I get paid

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

I want a little loving, I told you all to listen

But you never liked what you heard

I take what I am given , this may sound absurd

I share a double vision that started the transition

Hey where's Jimmy Jazz

Steady on the scale

I told you to listen

Yes, I told you all to listen

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

Somebody like you

Somebody's gotta hold back the river

You know that somebody

You know that somebody

But it ain't you