Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by

By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
And their hands reached for the golden ring
And in a moment they were swept before the deluge

And let the buildings keep our children dry

Let creation reveal its secrets by and by, by and by
And they struggled to protect her from them, only to be confused
With the energy of the innocent, they were gathering the tools
While the sand slipped through the opening
And in the end, they traded their tired wings
Now let the music keep our spirits high
Some of them were angry at the way the earth was abused
When the light that's lost within us, reaches the sky
In the troubled years that came before the deluge
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
And let the buildings keep our children dry
And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
Some of them knew pleasure and some of them knew pain
For the glitter and the rouge
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
For the resignation that living brings
They went flyin' around in the rain

When the light that's lost within us, reaches the sky
By the magnitude of the fury in the final hour
Believed that they were meant to live, after the deluge
Now let the music keep our spirits high
In the naked dawn, only a few survived
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth

With their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge
They would need to make their journey, back to nature