Joan Baez - Before the Deluge lyrics

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
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 spirit's 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

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 spirit's 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