Interesting earworm

Shades of Gray
By Barry Mann and Cyntha Weil


When the world and I were young,
Just yesterday.
Live was such a simple game,
A child could play.
It was easy then to tell right from wrong.
Easy then to tell weak from strong.
When a man should stand and fight,
Or just go along.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light.
Today there is no black or white,
Only shades of gray.

I remember when the answers seemed so clear
We had never lived with doubt or tasted fear.
It was easy then to tell truth from lies
Selling out from compromise
Who to love and who to hate,
The foolish from the wise.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light.
Today there is no black or white,
Only shades of gray.

It was easy then to know what was fair
When to keep and when to share.
How much to protect your heart
And how much to care.

But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light.
Today there is no black or white,
Only shades of gray.
Only shades of gray.

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Interesting to note: many of the groups from the 60s recorded some great socially relevant music, but many of us took it for granted and didn't think it was as important as it was. Nowadays, tunes like this open our eyes enough to realize that we've fought this battle before, and we should never think it's a unique situation.

War protests fuel our need and desire to affirm who we are, and that battling another nation isn't always in our best interests. There have been so-called "just wars" but when we can plainly see that is not a real argument but a justification of cruelty and bloody ambition, we need to dissent as our founding fathers taught us.

Sorry; got sidetracked for a moment! :hi:

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