Hold Back The River — Wet Wet Wet

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