Title: Before The Deluge

Artist: Jackson Browne
Sequenced by: Dan West

(c) Wild West Productions 2003
"Before The Deluge" by Jackson Browne
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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
And 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 flyin'
around in the rain
And their feathers,
once so fine,
grew torn and tattered
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
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 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

After The Deluge - Jackson Browne
Soft karaoke
Words
© Wild West Productions 2003
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banjo right
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piano left
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voice Oohs down 1
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