Dance Before The Storm Lyrics - Levellers

Dance before the storm 

These are dangerous time we live in 

I heard a man once say 

If you're prone to flights of fancy 

Your dreams can fly away 

See the sights around you 

Of breakdown and decay 

Wrought by the greed for a better life 

For which you have to pay 

From Glasgow town to London 

Down the motorway 

There's people standing in the rain 

Looking for any way 

To take them down to where they're bound 

It's a part of another way 

It's called the art of survival 

In a modern age 

Dance before the storm 

Don't look back to where you've been 

The horror's even further 

As the sands of time run thin 

Dance before the storm 

As the machinery breaks down 

Watch the sky go black with anger 

But no one makes a sound 

From Albion Hill to the Old Chain Pier 

You can hear a person say 

Spare some change for all me pains 

So if your head spins round, go underground 

Away from the games they play 

People down there are trying to care 

And let each one have their say 

It's not revolution tactics 

Or cause for anarchy 

Just a natural fight for a natural life 

Of which systems are afraid 

And if it all surrounds you 

Seems like there's no escape 

And there's someone stood in front of you 

Saying do it in their way 

Turn your eyes towards the tides 

See how they never change 

The sands of time will break their mime 

Like riding on a wave