Christy Moore - Before the Deluge lyrics

Some of them were dreamers
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
That they would need to make
Their journey back to nature

When the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
And their hearts turned to each
Others hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that
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
On the wild and crazy wings of youth
They went flying around in the rain
Until their feathers once so fine
Were torn and tattered
In the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
They traded love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
In a moment they were swept before the deluge

So let the music keep your spirit's high
Let the buildings keep your 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 that the earth was abused
By those men who learned to
Forge beauty into power
And in trying to protect us
From them only became confused
By the magnitude of the fury
In the final hour

When the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
In attempts to understand this thing
So simple and so huge
Believed they were meant to
Live after the deluge

So let the music keep your spirit's high
Let the buildings keep your 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