From: <p.balm@cwctv.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:28:51 +0000
JACKSON BROWN
BEFORE THE DELUGE
(late for the sky)
G /C /G /C /G /C /G /D
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Some of them were dreaming
Some of them knew pleasing
Some of them were angry
C G
and some of them were fools
and some of them knew pain
a the way the earth was abused
Em C
who were making plans and thinking
and for some of them it was only
by the men who learned how to forge
G C
of the future
the moment that mattered
her beauty into power
G
with the energy of the innocent
on the brave and crazy wings of youth
and they struggled to protect her from
C G
they were gathering the tools
they went flying around in the rain
them only to be confused
Em C
they would need to make their journey
and their feathers once so fine
by the magnitude of her fury
G C G
back to nature
grew tor and tattered
in the final hour
Em G
while the sand slipped through the o
and in the end they traded their tired
and when the sand was gone and the time
-pening and their hands reached for the
-wings for the resignation that
arrived in the naked dawn only
G Em
golden ring with their hearts
living brings and ex changed
a few survived and in atempts
C
they turned to each other's hearts for
love's bright and fragile glow
to under - stand a thing
D C G D
for refuge - -
for the glitter and the rouge
so simple and so huge
Em
in the troubled years that
and in a moment they were
believed that they were meant to
C G C 1. G
came before the deluge
swept before the deluge
live after the deluge
2.
G G C
now let the music keep our spirits high
G C G
and let the buildings keep our
C G D
children dry let creation reveal it's
G C G C
secrets and by and by by and by
G C
when the light that's lost within us
G (tocoda%) D
reaches the sky
repeat and fade
%coda G /D / :/ G /C /G /C /G /C
G /D
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