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