Lyr Add: SHADES OF GREY (Joel)

Subject: Lyr Add: SHADES OF GREY (Billy Joel)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 05:58 PM

Shades of Grey
(Billy Joel)

Some things were perfectly clear,
Seen with the vision of youth;
No doubts and nothing to fear,
I claimed the corner on truth.
These days it's harder to say
I know what I'm fighting for.
My faith is falling away,
I'm not that sure anymore.

Shades of grey wherever I go;
The more I find out the less I know.
Black and white is how it should be,
But shades of grey are the colors I see.

Once there were trenches and walls
and one point of every view.
Fight 'til the other man falls-
Kill him before he kills you.
These days the edges are blurred,
I'm old and tired of war.
I hear the other man's words
I'm not the same anymore.

Shades of grey are all that I find
When I come to the enemy line.
Black and white was so easy for me
But shades of grey are the colors I see.

Now with the wisdom of years
I try to reason things out,
And the only people I fear
Are those who never have doubts.
Save us all from arrogant men
And all the causes they're for,
I won't be righteous again.
I'm not that sure anymore.

Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know.
Ain't no rainbows shining on me,
Shades of grey are the colors I see.

In "River of Dreams" album, about ten years ago, which I don't have.
Given to me as a poem; no idea of the tune. Anyone?