Jackson Browne – Before The Deluge (Ukulele)

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Some of them were dreamers

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And some of them were fools

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Who were making plans and thinking of the future

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With the energy of the innocent

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They were gathering the tools

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They would need to make their journey back to nature

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While the sand slipped through the opening

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And their hands reached for the golden ring

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With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge

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In the troubled years that came before the deluge

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Some of them knew pleasure

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And some of them knew pain

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And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered

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And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

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They went flying around in the rain

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And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered

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And in the end they traded their tired wings

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For the resignation that living brings

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And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

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For the glitter and the rouge

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And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

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Now let the music keep our spirits high

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And let the buildings keep our children dry

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Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

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By and by...

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When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

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Some of them were angry

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At the way the earth was abused

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By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power

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And they struggled to protect her from them

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Only to be confused

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By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

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And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

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In the naked dawn only a few survived

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And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge

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Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

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Now let the music keep our spirits high

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And let the buildings keep our children dry

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Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

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By and by...

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When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky