Shades of Gray

look who's back  from a boiling freeze

with the wires of our nerves up their sleeve uh ha

anxiously calming our rush to flee

propelling our flight to some degree uh ha

but tune us the string, neither high nor low

we can dance and sing

how we teeter

on a world of moving parts

paradise in paradox

there's a middle way

black  is too jaded and white is too faded

we're finding shades of gray

guess who's mastered duality

and the tension of false dichotomy uh ha

bowing the branch of a bodhi tree

tunes out the madness to some degree  uh ha

tune us the string, neither high nor low

we can dance and sing

how we tauter

on a world of moving parts

paradise in paradox

there's a middle way

black is too jaded and white is too faded

we're finding shades of gray

i heard the violin say

"in the forest i silently stood living,

a cruel ax did slay me down

now in death i sing sweetly"

tune us the string, neither high nor low

we can dance and sing

how to balance

on a world of moving parts

paradise in paradox

there's a middle way

black is too jaded and white is too faded

we're finding shades of gray

spectacular shades of gray

dialectical shades of gray