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 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
   About the days when I get paid
  
   Somebody's gotta hold back the river
   Somebodyl ike 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
   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
  
   You know that somebody
   You know that somebody
   You know that somebody
   But it aint you