I’m not as strong as I used to be,
and there’s times when I don’t even care.
I’m thinking too much, and remembering dreams;
those things make a dangerous pair.

‘Cause thinking just makes you realize
that no matter how much you plan,
all your mind will do is bring it back to you:
Life’s like water, held in your hand.

CHORUS:
When the waters of memories rise,
and the pressure of lost dreams is strong,
and you’ve held it all in, ‘til you can’t hold no more,
that’s when the levee could break.

Remembering? Well, I remember
when I innocently thought life was swell,
and I worked for it all, to see everything fall...
now it’s just my own personal hell.

Well I don’t want to think any more,
and there’s no place that I can hide-
and I’ll blame it on me, and not on the war,-
but I sure wish that I had died...

CHORUS:
When the waters of discontent rise,
and the pressures today are too strong,
and you’ve done your best, but you’ve failed every test,
that’s when the levee will break.

You know, life is really quite precious
to those who don’t feel like I do.
But I’ve spent too much time, alone with my mind,
and I just can’t explain it to you.

I’ve stepped back out of the mainstream,
‘cause I no longer have someplace to go;
and I’m doing just fine, killing a little more time
‘til I finally shut down the show.

CHORUS:
When the waters of certainty rise,
and the pressures of everything wrong
seems to slide away, like the fading of day,-
that’s when the levee breaks.

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