[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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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

Em G

While the sand slipped through the opening

C G

And their hands reached for the golden ring

Em C D

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

Em C G C G

In the troubled years that came before the deluge

[Verse 2]

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Some of them knew pleasure

C G

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

C G

They went flying around in the rain

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

Em G

And in the end they traded their tired wings

C G

For the resignation that living brings

Em C

And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow

D

For the glitter and the rouge

Em C G C G

And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

[Chorus]

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Now let the music keep our spirits high

G C

And let the buildings keep our children dry

G D G C

Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

G C

By and by...

G C G D

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

[Verse 3]

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Some of them were angry

C G

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

C G

Only to be confused

Em C G C G

By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour

Em G

And when the sand was gone and the time arrived

C G

In the naked dawn only a few survived

Em C D

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

Em C G C G

Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

[Chorus]

G C G C

Now let the music keep our spirits high

G C

And let the buildings keep our children dry

G D G C

Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

G C

By and by...

G C G D

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