Take That - The flood

"Although no one understood, we were holding back the flood,
Learning how to dance the rain.
We were holding back the flood,
They said we'd never dance again"

Now, wait a second, can we look at that first line please.

"Although no one understood, we were holding back the flood."

Something is wrong here, are we pronouncing flood as 'fluud' or understood as 'understud' to make this work as a rhyme?

Come on lads.

Lads?