SHADES OF GRAY
THE MONKEES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SONG LYRICS
The Monkees are an American pop/rock band that released music in their original incarnation between 1966 and 1970, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966 to 1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. The band's music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner.
Described by Dolenz as initially being "a TV show about an imaginary band [...] that wanted to be the Beatles, [but] that was never successful", the actor-musicians soon became a real band.
When the world and I were young,
Just yesterday
Life 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...
(Instrumental Interlude)
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...