《Before The Deluge(Live)》歌词

[00:00:00] Before The Deluge (洪水之前) (Live) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)/Jackson Browne (杰克逊·布朗)

[00:01:10] Some of them were dreamers

[00:01:14] And some of them were fools

[00:01:18] Who were making plans and thinking of the future

[00:01:26] With the energy of the innocent

[00:01:30] They were gathering the tools

[00:01:35] They would need to make their journey back to nature

[00:01:43] While the sand slipped through the opening

[00:01:47] And their hands reached for the golden ring

[00:01:51] With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge

[00:02:00] In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[00:02:09] Some of them knew pleasure

[00:02:13] And some of them knew pain

[00:02:17] And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered

[00:02:26] And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

[00:02:30] They went flying around in the rain

[00:02:34] And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered

[00:02:43] And in the end they traded their tired wings

[00:02:48] For the resignation that living brings

[00:02:52] And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

[00:02:56] For the glitter and the rouge

[00:03:00] And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

[00:03:08] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:03:16] And let the buildings keep our children dry

[00:03:22] Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

[00:03:30] By and by

[00:03:34] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[00:03:44] Some of them were angry

[00:03:47] At the way the earth was abused

[00:03:51] By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

[00:03:59] And they struggled to protect her from them

[00:04:04] Only to be confused

[00:04:08] By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

[00:04:16] And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

[00:04:20] In the naked dawn only a few survived

[00:04:24] And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

[00:04:33] Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

[00:04:40] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:04:49] And let the buildings keep our children dry

[00:04:55] Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

[00:05:02] By and by

[00:05:06] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky