Save Us From Ourselves Written by Lawrence Gowan, Ricky Philips, Tommy Shaw, Will Evankovich Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw   [Winston Churchill] "The new world, with all its power and might Steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old..." It was the same day in another time I felt your pain and you felt mine And all that we tried and all of our tricks Still couldn't help what couldn't be fixed Who's gonna save us from ourselves this time? One nation, indivisible, heads in the sand 'cause we weren't invisible Say your prayers, we could all use a miracle now To save us from ourselves Demonstrations, appropriations, more frustrations, tugging at your sleeve Peace and love still has the power, don't wait until your final hour to believe I said, with all that we've tried and all of our tricks Still could not help what couldn't be fixed Can anyone save us from ourselves this time? And the truth is... One nation, indivisible, heads in the sand ...

Long Live The King Written by Lawrence Gowan, Ricky Philips, Tommy Shaw, Will Evankovich Lead Vocals by  Tommy Shaw Listen on YouTube   Locked in the tower of the castle wall, there's a stranger Waiting for his day And things that he'd say To bring down the old one High above the ranks of greed and confusion Almost half asleep, in the belly of the beast Awaits a Monster The King is dead And the world is set on fire And we all scream, "long live the king!" Long live the king Long live the king There's an army of a million men at the gate Looking for a war to wage Like an actor with no stage Or someone to feed them Thеre is no beginning and therе is no end All just take the seat Stuck there on repeat And they'll do it again and again and again and again I said "yeah!" The king is dead And the world is set on fire And we all scream, long live the king Long live the king Long live the king

The Same Stardust Written by Styx Lead Vocals by Lawrence Gowan, Tommy Shaw Listen on YouTube   Cool down, walk away Pull yourself together Live to fight another day Walk away, walk away from hate My sisters, my brothers Let's keep fighting for each other You and me and those before us We're all made from the same stardust Tears, flames can drag you down Want to fight every battle Be wise, open up your eyes Find your feet, walk away from me My sisters, my brothers Let's keep fighting for each other You and me, even those before us We're all made from the same stardust If we could give enough If we could sacrifice Turn our backs on the things we cherish 'til our blood runs cold as ice But we're not made that way We can't be played that way And we are not afraid To speak our minds 'cause we're here to stay My sisters, my brothers Let's keep fighting for each other You and me, even those before us We're all made from the same stardust The same s...

Little Did We Know  Written by  Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung So many were the days when life seemed unbearable Breathing in the haze that poisoned the air Lost and alone it was so inhumane In a twilight zone with the world gone insane So little did we know, denying our ignorance So little did we care in a cloak of indifference See we were the ones who refused to believe And now we'll see they'll be thеy'll be no reprievе Oh so little did we know Like zombies with flesh on our minds Oh no no now where can we go So little do we know Seems the only way we learn is when it's the hard way At the point of no return we still look away Unable to face the truth or the facts We start our vicious attacks, come what may What's wrong with us? Oh, the price that we'll pay We don't listen only speak 'cause, man, we know everything Don't you mess with my beliefs when you don't know anything Unwilling to change or even to bend We lose our family a...

The Isle of Misanthrope Written by  Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Long ago in ancient times We learned of life from minstrels rhymes They told us tales of gods and kings And to be beware when sirens sing But when we heard the clarion call The people laughed and built a wall We joyfully rehearsed the tune Like howling wolves at devils moon We've all been taught our lines So righteous with our holy signs We were deaf to the lies We were blind and unkind and unwise And will we ever learn All empires built will someday burn When they've lost all concern And they fail just to listen and learn No more life No more air Like a ship of fools adrift on le mal de mer No more joy No more hope Still we search for signs of truth as we learn to cope Lord from the Isle of Misanthrope And will we ever learn All empires built will some day burn When they've lost all concern And they fail just to listen and learn No more light No more air Like a ship of fools adrift sur le mal ...

  With All Due Respect  Written by Dennis DeYoung, Jim Peterik Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Talk talk yada yada blah blah woof woof Talk talk yada yada blah blah woof woof Fake news, fake facts New days, new hacks Fake truth, fake lies Guess what? Surprise! Fake fun, fake facts Hey look, new tax Fake red, fake blue Fake me... Well, fake you Ow! On the TV talk shows, on the radio The talking heads put on their show They got the answers, these pundits do In ruby red and royal blue (Oh no) But watch out these cognoscenti (Oh no) Hot dog they sure know plenty (Oh no) They remind us night and day (Ooh) But should I ever meet one (Ooh) I'd walk right up to greet them (Ooh) And here's politely what I'd say What I'd say With all due respect You are an asshole! With all due respect You make me sick! With all due respect Plug up your pie hole! With all due respect You don't deserve no damn respect In their ivory towers from their limousines They've all forgotten what it ...

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 ...

Unbroken  Written by  Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Something wicked has come our way On a raging wind And should this tempest have its say We'll be destroyed and from within Will we find the courage That we'll need to survive? Well we cannot be discouraged As long as we are still alive Against the rain, we'll forge a chain, unbroken And we'll defy every lie that's spoken And now, if we join together In the age of the great divide And face the truth with our еyes wide open Our hеarts, our minds, this dream Will stand unbroken, unbroken Unbroken, unbroken In the streets all the angry voices Shout the world's unfair As the universe stands in silence Bolts of lightning flash everywhere Restless is the night We pray but we must fight Day by day we search for ways To lead us to the guiding light Against the rain, we will remain, unbroken We seek a time, where only truth is spoken And so, while the ground is shaking, Let there be a call to arms To face ...

The Kingdom's Come Undone Written by Ronnie Montrose,  Ricky Phillips Lead Vocals by  Ricky Phillips You see the man in the mirror You can't see through his disguise Remember that face in his hand As he holds on in wild eyes Chop down the old weeping willow And see the hangman fall Deep down to the roots, therein lies the truth to desire In my life See them run In our time The kingdom's come undone Next in line Who will be next to carry on Is there a method in his madness Once the madman's crossed the line When his strength and beliefs become our legacy Will you stiffen for all of mankind Take the hood off the hangman And see the face of us all With your freedom of choice Will you be the voice With the blade of the axe when it falls In my life The freedom bell is rung When the death bells toll The kingdom's come undone The mirror sees you look away Others speak their mind Upon our shoulders, now will lay The generation next in line Is there method in his madness Onc...

Mission to Mars Written by Tommy Shaw Now I can say in less than a day We'll be underway on our Mission to Mars Theoretical themes, radical schemes Chasing our dreams on our Mission to Mars Tomorrow we'll say that this is the day We'll be on our way on the Mission to Mars Say goodbye to all your friends Now a whole new life begins As the universe's mysteries unfold And the audience back home is holding on With bated breath To hear the stories that are waiting to be told Now I can say that this is the day We'll be on our way on our Mission to Mars Theoretical themes, radical schemes Chasing our dreams on our Mission to Mars Astrophysical plans, political sands It's all in our hands on our Mission to Mars Sparks and quarks, they glow in the dark They'll someday remark as a walk in the park This Mission to Mars Now I can say this is the day We'll be on our way on the Mission to Mars Now I can say that this is the day We'll be on ...

Give 'em Hell Harry  Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Harry Truman was born to play piano That's all he ever thought about From the first time he touched those ivory keys He never had a single doubt Started playing for all the kin folks Then in honky tonks and bars Never once entertained the thought Of playing a silly six string guitar He was a piano player dog gone it, case closed As he made his way to the gigs he'd play He found the roads in an awful state I'm not talking about Missouri per se But the thoroughfares weren't so great He said "My name is Harry, Harry Truman" Give 'em hell Harry give 'em hell When the lights came on they rang your liberty bell From Missouri to the White House There's one thing Harry knew If you don't learn to milk a cow They'll never ask you to Because Harry's mind was sharp and nimble Those citizens were in luck He strapped his family's old upright Kimble Up in the bed of his count...

Turn Off CNN Written by  Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Push When you wake up in the morning Do you watch CNN? Oh, do you close your eyes and hold your breath Then say an Amen? 'cause there's too much information Runnin' round in your brain Do we really need to know the facts Of everyone's pain? Still you're searchin' for some reason At the scene of the crime With people killing people Everywhere all the time But then you go about your merry way 'cause baby you're still alive Wondering all the time in the back of your mind How will this world survive? And nobody knows nothin' Nobody ever did Well we can talk real loud and act real smart But who we tryin' to kid 'cause everybody is an expert When they're bloggin' the news Oh, genius after genius Without any clues Twenty four hours, seven days a week Disasters multiply Staring at the tube, you can barely speak It makes you wanna cry Turn off CNN T-t-turn it off Turn off CN...

Fallen Angel Written by Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Listen on YouTube Hell nobody's perfect One hundred percent No saint, no Pope, no King no Queen No President But our hunger for heroes Has made us blind We seek salvation From the cup of human kind But every time we hear the voice Of some new Abraham We wake too late to realize It was just another scam Fallen angel, fallen angel Well I guess you were no angel after all Fallen angel, fallen angel You always take us with you when you fall I said nobody's perfect From head to toe Not Einstein or Elvis or Lenin or Marx Or Marilyn Monroe Cause it's mostly illusion In flesh and bone An image, a look, a song or a book That we all claim for our own But even in the best of us There lies beneath the skin The tragic flaw in nature's law That's bound to do us in Fallen angel, fallen angel Well I guess you were no angel after all Fallen angel, fallen angel You always take us with you when you fall Pretty faces ...

  Heavy Water Written by James Young Lead Vocals by James Young Listen on YouTube Sittin' here on terra firma It's the kind of place we were meant to be Out here kinda lost in space now Pondering life's mysteries All of mankind worship at the altar Of old mythology But the genie's out of the bottle Collision course with eternity Young children playing in the chat room With the freaks and the satellites Upload the nearset planet Burnin' out at the speed of light Better living for the masses With the new technology But some fool went and pushed the button He didn't get an apology Feeling good is a new sensation Panacea for the Prozac nation Heavy, heavy water Won't wash away the sins of the father Sacred cow sizzling in the fire As we all go up in flames With millions of true believers And their unfamiliar names On the road to good intentions Blown to hell by our own inventions Heavy, heavy water Won't wash away the sins of the father Unholy, holy water Le...

High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hip Hop-Cracy) Written by Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Listen on YouTube They want you to believe The unbelievable They say you should accept The unacceptable Forget your common sense It isn't sensible Good times for fools and dreamers Watch 'em all deny The undeniable See how they refute The unrefutable They're ready to defend The indefensible High times for lawyer schemers They say we must forgive The forgivable They want us to respect The unrespectable The pious and the hip So hypocritical High crimes and misdemeanors Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop Hip hop hip hop-cracy hip hop See how they explain The inexplicable Watch 'em debate The undebatable Apparently a lie Is never liable Prime time for talk show screamers They say we constitute The Constitutional With justice here for all So justifiable I'm tryin' not to laugh But man it's laughable High crimes and misdemeanors Hip hop hip...

Empty Promises Written by James Young Lead Vocals by James Young Those mental midgets that you call your friends I heard them talkin' about you And those nasty habits you got from somewhere They make you act just like a fool No more empty promises, no No more bigtime stories, no Please, Mr. Politician, no No more empty promises, no... I saw you riding in that white limousine Looked like Prince Andy on the loose And those nasty women you got from who knows where If they only knew the truth No more empty promises, no No more bedtime stories, no Please, Mr. Politician, no No more empty promises, no...

Cold War Written by Tommy Shaw Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw Listen on YouTube I'm tired of your psychology To bring me to my bended knees And if I could only talk to you I'm sure that I could make you see 'Cause time has a way Of bringing even mountains down, down, down Storm clouds are coming I suggest you head for higher ground I say you're a thing of the past And you ain't gonna last No matter what you say or do It's all caught up to you You're duty-free, you're tax-exempt You party with the President And you dance the dance so naturally Why not believe you're heaven-sent But time has a way of bringing Even mountains down, down, down There's a storm cloud a-comin' I insist you head for higher ground You talk talk and you get so intense That you almost make sense And that's what scares me the most You have the host of celebrity lies It's prime time, baby Can't you see in my eyes, it's a Cold war Running in the streets Everybody...

High Time Written by Dennis DeYoung Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung Listen on YouTube I flip the switch on my laser video And there's the man staring back at me He starts to speak in a voice so righteous About the sins of society He's got answers to all my problems Says he'll decide what I should hear and see I try to change to another station But all I get is more of his morality And morality, yeah But I see the kids of a new generation And they won't stand for this mind control They're gonna change this world we live in They're gonna bring back the rock and roll So if I can, I'm gonna break from this prison Gonna get out and join in the fight Take a chance on what I believe in Win or lose, I know it's right 'Cause it's high time For us to start a revolution High time Just like an A-bomb explosion High time It ain't the music that's in question High time It's more the freedom of expression Change is comin' Mind Police are comin...

Heavy Metal Poisoning Written by James Young Lead Vocals by James Young Listen on YouTube  ( Video ) murolceS odrO suvoN sitpeoC tiunnA What the devil's goin' on Why don't your turn that music down You're going deaf and that's for sure But all you do is scream for more Get the lead out go for broke Pop your pills and drink and smoke Shoot those chemicals into your vein Anything to ease the pain Heavy metal (heavy metal) poisoning (it's a poison) A toxic wasteland (got a toxic wasteland) in your ear canal (in your ear canal!) Overloaded (I'm overloaded), suffering (yeah!) Overloaded (overloaded) on sex and drugs Everything is black and white You are wrong and we are right First we'll spank your big behinds Then we'll twist your little minds I'm Dr. Righteous (I'm Dr. Righteous), and I'm here to sing (yeah!) That heavy metal (heavy metal) is poisoning It's a music wasteland, that destroys the young (yeah!) They're overloaded (overlo...

Double Life Written by James Young Lead Vocals by James Young Listen on YouTube In the dark so all alone Slowly reach for the telephone A message waits just for you A secret place, another rendezvous It's not always honesty That is the best policy But little lies can give you away Though you'll deny it if they say maybe you're just Leading a double life Friends in the daytime, strangers at night Leading a double life Can it be wrong when you know that it's right? The other side of the Berlin Wall is Not far enough to avoid the call Somebody knows, somebody's seen Somebody knows right where you've been And that you're just Leading a double life Friends in the daytime, strangers at night Leading a double life Can it be wrong when you know that it's right? Nowhere to hide, though we both might try I'm schizophrenic, and so am I Double life, a double life, a masquerade You know we all live a masquerade I know you're out there! Leading a double life F...