Kingdoms

Long ago before the cold

We built our roads and weren't alone

We sung with pride into the night

By candle-light we were alive

Until the world started to cry

Flowers they shone into the sky

And life it seemed so serene

The end of days was not foreseen

To rise and fall into the snow

We were so young but felt so old

We saw the signs but were so blind

And thought our lives would never die

To climb so high in space but fall so far from grace

We're the chosen ones

And build from sand with narrow minds

We thought this day would never come

Broken homes and crumbling walls

Watch them collapse and hit the floor

Years of neglect and endless wars

Took its toll this broken world

If all the choices made were thrown into the lake

It would turn pitch black

And though some were wise

Mix them with heinous crimes

Another kingdom destroyed in vain

I've had enough I'll close my eyes

Take my mind far from sight

My body's gone filled with disease

Let me decay with the earth and the trees