A Kingdom Ablaze  Written by  Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung With the kingdom ablaze We averted our gaze By hiding our eyes When the pillars came down We heard not a sound From the city of lies Nero's sang the same song they'd been singing While hero's shot in vain their arrows slinging Then the king and his knaves The fools and the slaves Kept pouring our wine And we knew we should stop But we drank every drop Every grape from the vine Barren grew the land between the oceans And sorcerers could not conjure magic potions House of cards, cried the child We are tribes, running wild It was you, it was me It was us, can't you see? When our greed becomes our need All will bleed So we musn't blame fate When fools legislate Without any plan And we dare not ignore The devil in store From the nature of man The future lies in state with tragic endings While we still contemplate our happy endings House of cards, cried the child We are tribes, running wild Was it ...

Brothers Grim Written by Allen Keller and Scott Bennett Five brothers sitting in front of the fire Waiting for one of the weak to retire An old crocheted pillow held over a face One brother disappears without a trace Four brothers sitting all neat in a row Listening to their favorite radio show One eats some fruit from the family tree At next morning's breakfast there only are three The brothers grim The youngest one takes out his insulin There's no need to notify the next of kin Cain slew Abel as brothers will do Three brothers magically turn into two Accidents happen so often at home Look at the forests of handmade headstones But if a tree falls and it isn't alone Is there a reason for one to atone The brothers grim Mamma died and left her boys all alone To fight for the seat to the empty throne An old brambled crown and a seal of scrawl A kingdom consisting of nothing at all At four o'clock rings the dinner bell Be it ever so humble there's no place like hell Blo...