Before the Deluge (Remastered) Chords

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[D] _ [G] _ Some of them were dreamers, _ _ [C] some of them were [G] fools, who [Em] were making plans [C] and thinking
of the [G] future.
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_ With the energy of the innocent, _ _ [C] they were gathering [G] the tools _ [Em] they would need to make
[C] their journey back [G] to nature.
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_ [Em] While the sand slipped through [G] the opening, _ [C] and their hands reached for [G] the golden ring,
[Em] With their hearts they turned to [C] each other's hearts [D] for refuge.
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[G] _ [D] _ [Em] In the troubled years [C] that came before [G] the day knew, _ [C] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ some of them knew pleasure, _ _ [C] _ some
of them [G] knew pain, _ [Em] and for some of them [C] it was only the moment [G] that mattered.
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_ _ And on the brave and crazy wings of youth, [C] they went flying around [G] in the rain, and [Em] their
feathers once so [C] fine grew torn and [G] tattered.
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[G] _ _ [Em] And in the end they [G] traded their tired wings for [C] the resignation [G] that living brings, and
[Em] exchanged love's [C] bright and fragile glow [G] for the [D] glitter and the rose.
[C] _ _ [G] _ [D] [Em] And in a moment they were [C] swept before [G] the deluge.
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[G] Now let the music keep our spirits [C] high, _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ let the buildings [G] keep our children dry,
[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ let creation [D] reveal its [G] secrets by and _ by, [C] _ _ _ [G] by and by, _
[C] _ _ when [G] the light that's [C] lost with
us reaches [G] the sky. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Some of them were angry [C] at the way the earth [G] was abused, _ [Em] by the men who [C] learned how to
forge her beauty [G] into power, [C] _
[G] _ _ _ and they struggled to protect her from them, _ [C] only to be [G] confused
_ [Em] by the magnitude [G] of [C] her fury in the final [G] hour.
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[G] _ _ _ [Em] When the sand was gone and [G] the time arrived, [C] in the naked dawn [G] only a few survived, [Em] and
in an attempt to [C] understand the thing so [D] simple and so [C] huge, _ [G] _ [D] [Em] believe that they were meant
to [C] live _ _ [G] after the deluge.
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_ [G] Now let the music keep our spirits _
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[C] _ let the buildings keep [G] our [C] children dry, _ _ _ [G] _ let creation
[D] reveal its secrets by and [G] by, _
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[C] _ _ _ [G] when the [C] light that's lost within us [G] reaches the sky. _ _
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