Joan Baez - Before The Deluge

Some of them were dreamers
Some of them were fools
They 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
Hat came before the deluge

Some of them knew pleasure
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
Exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in the moment they were swept
Before the deluge

Let the music keep our spirits high
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

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

Let the music keep our spirits high
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.