Before the Deluge

[Verse 1]
Some of them, they 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
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
In their hearts they turned
To each other's hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[Verse 2]
Some of them, they 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 the moment they were swept before the deluge

[Chorus]
So let the music keep your spirits high
And let the buildings keep your children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[Verse 3]
Some of them, they were angry
At the way that the earth was abused
By those men who learned to forge beauty into power
And been 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 that they were meant to live after the deluge

[Chorus]
So let the music keep your spirits high
And let the buildings keep your children dry
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[Outro]
And let the music keep your spirits high
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And let the buildings keep your children dry
Oh lee-duh-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la, la