Dance Before the Storm - The 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