Before The Deluge

Before the Deluge - Jackson Browne live at No Nukes with David Lindley [INTRO]                                                [Verse] Some of them were dreamers And some of them were fools Who were making plans and thinking of the future      With the energy of the innocent They were gathering the tools They would need to make their journey back to nature While the sand slipped through the opening And their hands reached for the golden ring With their hearts they turned to each other’s heart for refuge       In the troubled years that came before the deluge     [Verse] Some of them knew pleasure And some of them knew pain And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered     And on the brave and crazy wings of youth They went flying around in the rain And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered      And in the end they traded their tired wings For the resignation that living brings And exchanged love’s bright and fragile glow For the glitter and the rouge              And in the moment they were swept before the deluge   Now let the music keep our spirits high                  And let the buildings keep our children dry   Let creation reveal it’s secrets by and by       By and by...        When the light that’s lost within us reaches the sky       [Verse] Some of them were angry At the way the earth was abused By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power    And they struggled to protect her from them Only to be confused By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour      And when the sand was gone and the time arrived In the naked dawn only a few survived And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge          Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge    Now let the music keep our spirits high                  And let the buildings keep our children dry   Let creation reveal it’s secrets by and by              By and by...        When the light that’s lost within us reaches the sky