Before The Deluge

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[Verse 1]
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Some of them were dreamers, some of them were fools
Am               F               C
Making plans and thinking of the future
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With the energy of the innocent, they were gathering the tools
           Am                 F   G           C
They would need to make their journey back to nature

[Chorus]
         Am                       C
When the sand slipped through the opening
          F                     C
And their hands reached for the golden ring
          Am                                      G
And their hearts turned to each others hearts for refuge
       Am                  F    G          C
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[Verse 2]
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Some of them knew pleasure, some of them knew pain
        Am                  F                    C
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
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On the wild and crazy wings of youth they went flying around in the rain
           Am                F   G             C
'Til their feathers once so fine were torn and tattered

[Chorus]
       Am                    C
In the end they traded their tired wings
        F                C
For the resignation that living brings
     Am                       F                    G
They traded love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge
     Am               F     G          C
In a moment they were swept before the deluge

[Verse 3]
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So let the music keep your spirits high (Let the music keep your spirits high)
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Let the buildings keep your children dry
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Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by, by and by, by and by
         C                         F G           C
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[Guitar Solo]
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[Verse 4]
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Some of them were angry at the way that the earth was abused
         Am                       F           C
By those men who learned to forge beauty into power
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And in trying to protect us from them only became confused
       Am               F           G     C
By the magnitude of the fury in the final hour

[Chorus]
         Am                    C
When the sand was gone and the time arrived
       F                 C
In the naked dawn only a few survived
   Am               F                   G
In attempts to understand this thing so simple and so huge
     Am                        F    G         C
We believed they were meant to live after the deluge

[Verse 5]
C                                                                F
So let the music keep your spirits high (Let the music keep your spirits high)
C                           F
Let the buildings keep your children dry
C                    G                 Am         F          C          F
Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by, by and by, by and by
         C                         F G           C
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

[Outro]
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