《Before The Deluge》歌词

[00:00:00] Before The Deluge - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)

[00:00:19] Some of them were dreamers

[00:00:23] And some of them were fools

[00:00:26] Who were making plans and thinking of the future

[00:00:35] With the energy of the innocent

[00:00:39] They were gathering the tools

[00:00:43] They would need to make their journey back to nature

[00:00:52] While the sand slipped through the opening

[00:00:56] And their hands reached for the golden ring

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

[00:01:09] In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[00:01:18] Some of them knew pleasure

[00:01:22] And some of them knew pain

[00:01:26] And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered

[00:01:34] And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

[00:01:39] They went flying around in the rain

[00:01:43] And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered

[00:01:51] And in the end they traded their tired wings

[00:01:55] For the resignation that living brings

[00:01:59] And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

[00:02:04] For the glitter and the rouge

[00:02:09] And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

[00:02:15] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:02:24] And let the buildings keep our children dry

[00:02:30] Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

[00:02:38] By and by

[00:02:42] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[00:02:52] Some of them were angry

[00:02:55] At the way the earth was abused

[00:02:59] By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

[00:03:08] And they struggled to protect her from them

[00:03:13] Only to be confused

[00:03:17] By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

[00:03:25] And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

[00:03:29] In the naked dawn only a few survived

[00:03:34] And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

[00:03:42] Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

[00:03:49] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:03:58] And let the buildings keep our children dry

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

[00:04:11] By and by

[00:04:16] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky