Hold Back The River
Wet Wet Wet"Hold Back The River" is a song by Wet Wet Wet, released in 1989 in the Pop genre. The song is 4:30 long and contains 40 lines and 206 words.
Lyrics
0:03Stop your pretending
0:07Listen to what I've got to say
0:10How your heads went away
0:14Only here for a day
0:19And that grave I just made
0:24Is for me when I get paid
0:37Won't you wait a while
0:39Move to the blue
0:42Sometimes people don't want to say
0:46Old time dancers don't die that way
0:52See that grave I've just made
0:55Its for me when I get paid
1:00Somebodys gotta hold back the river
1:07Somebody like you
1:20Do you love and surrender
1:27Sometimes I don't feel I can remember
1:33I think its fair to mention
1:39About the days when I get paid
1:44Somebodys gotta hold back the river
1:51Somebody like you
1:55Somebodys gotta hold back the river
2:03Somebody like you
2:17I want a little loving
2:20I told you all to listen
2:24But you never liked what you heard
2:28I take what I am given
2:32This may sound absurd
2:36I share a double vision
2:41That started the transition
2:50Hey wheres jimmy jazz
2:59Steady on the scale
3:07I told you to listen
3:11I told you all to listen
3:14Somebodys gotta hold back the river
3:22Somebody like you
3:26Somebodys gotta hold back the river
3:34Somebody like you
4:22You know that somebody
4:25You know that somebody
4:30But it ain't you
Stop your pretending Listen to what I've got to say How your heads 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 Its for me when I get paid Somebodys gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Do you love and surrender Sometimes I don't feel I can remember I think its fair to mention About the days when I get paid Somebodys gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Somebodys 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 wheres jimmy jazz Steady on the scale I told you to listen I told you all to listen Somebodys gotta hold back the river Somebody like you Somebodys gotta hold back the river Somebody like you You know that somebody You know that somebody But it ain't you
Translation
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