Stop your pretending Listen to what I gotta say your head's ran away Only here for a day And that grave I've just made For me when I get paid, hey I get paid, yeah
Won't you a while Move to the blue Sometimes people don't wanna say Old time dancers don't die die that way that grave I've just made It's for me when I get paid
Somebody gotta hold back the river Somebody like you, yeah Somebody but you, yeah
Do you love and surrender Sometimes I don't feel I can remember And I think it's to mention, yeah About the days when I get paid
Somebody gotta hold the river Somebody like you Somebody gotta hold back the river Somebody like you, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Want a little loving I told all to listen But you never liked what you heard, yeah I take what I am given It sound absurd I stare with double vision Starting the transition, yeah yeah Now baby, hey
Hey where's Jimmy Jazz Steady on the scale
I told you to listen Yes I told you to listen
Somebody gotta hold back the river like you Somebody gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Somebody gotta hold back the Somebody like you Somebody gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Somebody gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Somebody gotta hold back the river know that somebody, yeah You know that somebody Somebody ain't you