《Before the Deluge》歌词

[00:00:00] Before The Deluge - Jackson Browne (杰克逊·布朗)

[00:00:37] Some of them were dreamers

[00:00:41] And some of them were fools

[00:00:45] Who were making plans and thinking of the future

[00:00:54] With the energy of the innocent

[00:00:59] They were gathering the tools

[00:01:03] They would need to make their journey back to nature

[00:01:12] While the sand slipped through the opening

[00:01:16] And their hands reached for the golden ring

[00:01:21] With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge

[00:01:31] In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[00:01:40] Some of them knew pleasure

[00:01:44] And some of them knew pain

[00:01:48] And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered

[00:01:57] And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

[00:02:01] They went flying around in the rain

[00:02:06] And their feathers once so fine grew torn and tattered

[00:02:15] And in the end they traded their tired wings

[00:02:19] For the resignation that living brings

[00:02:24] And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

[00:02:29] For the glitter and the rouge

[00:02:33] And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

[00:02:41] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:02:50] And let the buildings keep our children dry

[00:02:56] Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

[00:03:04] By and by--

[00:03:08] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[00:03:12] Some of them were angry

[00:03:19] By the men who learned

[00:03:22] At the way the earth was abused

[00:03:26] By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

[00:03:35] And they struggled to protect her from them

[00:03:40] Only to be confused

[00:03:44] By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

[00:03:53] And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

[00:03:57] In the naked dawn only a few survived

[00:04:02] And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

[00:04:11] Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

[00:04:19] Now let the music keep our spirits high

[00:04:28] And let the buildings keep our children dry

[00:04:34] Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

[00:04:42] By and by--

[00:04:46] When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky