Story Behind The Song

The climate of fear in this country propagated by BushCo is at an all time high - and those in power want it just that way. People who are afraid will be more easily manipulated than those who stand up for themselves and what they believe is right...but the key is realizing that everything is NOT shades of gray. Sometimes they really are black and white.

Song Description

You will only be afraid if you want to be afraid - you will only be a puppet if you let someone else pull your strings

Lyrics

Shades of Gray © 2006 Bill Slater BMI

You can?t stop hate with hatred
Can?t live your life in fear
You can?t become like those you oppose
That?s what the monster is waiting to hear
If you act just as they do
You become like them
And bend the way the wind blows
It?s not a question of how it?s just a matter of when
Then what?s the difference between black and white?
And good or bad or wrong or right?
No more distinction between night and day
There?s only SHADES OF GRAY

The real story of humanity
Is of intolerance of liberty
It?s making bigots of all race and kinds
Puts bars and cages inside their minds
So what?s the difference between red or blue?
When we are busy raping what is true?
No more division between stone or clay
It?s all just SHADES OF GRAY

Middle 8
And if this song makes you feel ill at ease
I didn?t write it so that it might please
Those banner bearers and what they have to say
The left hand doesn?t know that the right?s at play
I can?t keep my anger at bay
You say it?s all just SHADES OF GRAY

INST

(They tell us) Put down your mind and pick up your gun
Get back in line you?ve got ?em on the run
What?s that your sayin?? They?re hiding their faces
(You) find the devil in the STRANGEST places
I know the difference between black and white
And good and bad and wrong and right?
No more distinction between the night and day
It?s all just SHADES
(You say) It?s all just SHADES
(I know) It?s only SHADES OF GRAY