{"id":683,"date":"2019-03-18T06:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=683"},"modified":"2019-03-18T06:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T14:07:25","slug":"before-the-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/before-the-deluge\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty-five years now since Jackson Browne penned his visionary song, <em>Before the Deluge.<\/em> Year after year it becomes more piercing, more trenchant, more a lament for our time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before the Deluge<\/strong><br \/> Jackson Browne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of them were dreamers<br \/>\nAnd some of them were fools<br \/>\nWho were making plans and thinking of the future<br \/>\nWith the energy of the innocent<br \/>\nThey were gathering the tools<br \/>\nThey would need to make their journey back to nature<br \/>\nWhile the sand slipped through the opening<br \/>\nAnd their hands reached for the golden ring<br \/>\nWith their hearts they turned to each other&#8217;s hearts for refuge<br \/>\nIn the troubled years that came before the deluge<br \/>\nSome of them knew pleasure<br \/>\nAnd some of them knew pain<br \/>\nAnd for some of them it was only the moment that mattered<br \/>\nAnd on the brave and crazy wings of youth<br \/>\nThey went flying around in the rain<br \/>\nAnd their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered<br \/>\nAnd in the end they traded their tired wings<br \/>\nFor the resignation that living brings<br \/>\nAnd exchanged love&#8217;s bright and fragile glow<br \/>\nFor the glitter and the rouge<br \/>\nAnd in a moment they were swept before the deluge<br \/>\nLet the music keep our spirits high<br \/>\nLet the buildings keep our children dry<br \/>\nLet creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by<br \/>\nWhen the light that&#8217;s lost within us reaches the sky<br \/>\nSome of them were angry<br \/>\nAt the way the earth was abused<br \/>\nBy the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power<br \/>\nAnd they struggled to protect her from them<br \/>\nOnly to be confused<br \/>\nBy the magnitude of her fury in the final hour<br \/>\nAnd when the sand was gone and the time arrived<br \/>\nIn the naked dawn only a few survived<br \/>\nAnd in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge<br \/>\nBelieved that they were meant to live after the deluge<br \/>\nLet the music keep our spirits high<br \/>\nLet the buildings keep our children dry<br \/>\nLet creation reveal it&#8217;s secrets by and by, by and by<br \/>\nWhen the light that&#8217;s lost within us reaches the sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-five years now since Jackson Browne penned his visionary song, Before the Deluge. Year after year it becomes more piercing, more trenchant, more a lament for our time. Listen here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU Here are the lyrics: Before the Deluge Jackson Browne Some of them were dreamers And some of them were fools Who were making plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}