Music: Visions of hope, of the future, of the dark – “Before the Deluge” with Jackson Browne

Turn off the other stuff & give this a listen, you’ll be glad you did.

When Jackson sings this song from the mid-1970s (recorded here in 2010 at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival), it echoes the hopes & fears we struggle with today, as he sings in the third verse:

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 her 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