Stop your pretending   Listen to what I've got to say   How your head's went away   Only here for a day   And that grave I just made   Is for me when I get paid      Won't you wait a while   Move to 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 got to hold back the river   Somebody like you      Do you love and surrender   Sometimes I feel like I can remember   I think it's fair to mention   About the days when I get paid      Somebody's got to hold back the river   Somebody like you   Somebody's got to 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   Starting the transition      Hey where's Jimmy Jazz   Steady on the scales      I told you to listen   I told you to listen      Somebody's got hold back the river   Somebody like you   Somebody's got to hold back the river   Somebody like you      You know that somebody   You know that somebody   You know that somebody   But it ain't you