Jackson Browne - Before The Deluge Lyrics
Some of them were dreamersAnd some of them were foolsWho were making plans and thinking of the futureWith the energy of the innocentThey were gathering the toolsThey would need to make their journey back to natureWhile the sand slipped through the openingAnd their hands reached for the golden ringWith their hearts they turned to each others heart for refugeIn the troubled years that came before the delugeSome of them new pleasureAnd some of them knew painAnd for some of them it was only the moment that matteredAnd on the brave and crazy wings of youthThey went flying around in the rainAnd their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tatteredAnd in the end they traded their tired wingsFor the resignation that living bringsAnd exchanged loves bright and fragile glowFor the glitter and the rougeAnd in the moment they were swept before the delugeNow let the music keep our spirits highAnd let the buildings keep our children dryLet creation reveal its secrets by and byBy and by--When the light thats lost within us reaches the skySome of them were angryAt the way the earth was abusedBy the men who learned how to forge her beauty into powerAnd they struggled to protect her from themOnly to be confusedBy the magnitude of her fury in the final hourAnd when the sand was gone and the time arrivedIn the ***** dawn only a few survivedAnd in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so hugeBelieved that they were meant to live after the delugeNow let the music keep our spirits highAnd let the buildings keep our children dryLet creation reveal its secrets by and byBy and by--When the light thats lost within us reaches the sky
