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Title track from Mitch's 2020 release. Features guest vocal from legendary Australian singer-songwriter Kevin Bennett
lyrics
HOLDING BACK THE LEVEE
Intro:
Holding back the Levee, I Can’t let it loose
VERSE 1:
Oh lord would you believe
Got the whole town depending on me
Got the shakes in my arms, Feel an aching in my knees
Dark clouds closing in
I’m thinking boy I hope they can swim
Their words calling out, brings an aching from within
CHORUS
Holding back the Levee, I can’t let it loose
Holding back the Levee, I can’t let it loose
Give me the strength, carry me through
River pushing hard, rising like the truth
Holding back the Levee, I can’t let it loose
Holding back the levee, I can’t let it loose
VERSE 2:
From a bed of rock and stone
Worked its way to the valley below
That River don’t care, not a thought for where it goes
Hard rain came so fast
Time to run, long gone past
Would they have left if a warning had been known?
VERSE 3:
I see tears in their eyes
I see grown men staring to cry
Put their faith in sad and sorry levee wall
Is it in me, I don’t know
Give it all before I’d let go
Feel the weight bearing down on a ragged and weary soul
credits
released September 28, 2020
Credits:
Produced and Mixed by: Colin Leadbetter
Mitch Dean – acoustic guitar, harp, lead vocal
Damian Cafarella (Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes) – drums and electric guitar
James Gillard (The Flood, Mental As Anything) – bass and backing vocals
Sam See (Sherbert, John Farnham) – piano and organ
Kevin Bennett – vocal on ‘Holding Back The Levee’
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