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Artist/Band: Jackson Browne
Lyrics for Song: Before The Deluge
Lyrics for Album: The Very Best of Jackson Browne [2004]



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 hearts 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 a moment they were swept before the deluge



Let the music keep our spirits high

Let the buildings keep our children dry

Let creation reveal its 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


Album Lyrics: The Very Best of Jackson Browne [2004]


Jackson Browne
"The Very Best of Jackson Browne [2004]"


1. Before The Deluge
2. Doctor My Eyes
3. Running On Empty
4. Late For The Sky
5. Tender Is The Night
6. Red neck friend
7. Boulevard
8. I'm Alive
9. Jamaica Say You Will
10. Rock Me on the Water
11. I am a patriot
12. You love the thunder
13. The naked ride home
14. Here Come Those Tears Again
15. Lawless avenue