If it keeps on rainin' levee's goin' to break All last night sat on the levee and moaned, Going down, going down now, going down going down now, going down When the levee breaks I'll have no place to stay. Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan Lord

Guess I'll always have to be Living in a fantasy From now on That's the way it's got to be It's you for you, and me for me Monday has come around again I'm in the same old place With the same old faces always watching me Who knows how long I'll have to

When whoever's in New England is through with you And Boston finds better things to do You know its not too late 'cause you'll always have a place to go When whoever's in New England's through with you You spend an awful lot of time in Massachusetts

Dum dum, dum dum dum Oh, that boy, he's so dumb And the place goes Too slow to turn this on Better come before I'm gone Dum dum, dum dum dum (ayy) La, la, la, la Been staring all night long Just wanna have some fun

I did the best I could Flying high in the friendly sky So stupid minded Nobody understood Without leaving the ground Rest of the folks are tired and weary And have laid their bodies down I go to the place where danger waits And its bound to forsake me

Let me be your sanctuary Let me be your safe place to fall I can take away your worries The refuge from it all We have together Turn the light off, go to bed Tell me all about the day you had Lay beside me, it's time to rest You can close your eyes,

I still believe in you and me Still believe the sun will shine on me I still believe there's a reason, there's a meaning to why we're here There is a place where we can go to where we don't have to live in fear They're trying to tell me that the moon is

Guess I'll always have to be Living in a fantasy From now on That's the way it's got to be It's you for you, and me for me Monday has come around again I'm in the same old place With the same old faces always watching me Who knows how long I'll have to

Well, then a 'nuff gettoh youths no have no place to go Live night and day roaming in the gettoh Nuff gettoh youths ain't got no place of their own Give them some place that they can call their home Well, then a 'nuff politions telling poor people lies

You can have your space, cowboy I ain't gonna fence you in Go on ride away, in your Silverado Sunsets fade, and love does too I'll see you around again 'Cause I know my place, and it ain't with you When a horse wants to run, ain't no sense in closing the