Ric Ocasek
The Gray Race
[Verse 1]
The framework of the world is black and white
The infrastructure builders flex their might
Turning true emotion into digital expression
One by one, we all fall down

[Chorus]
The Gray Race shrivels, trapped inside
The world it creates is black and white
The Gray Race shrivels, trapped inside
The world it creates is black and white

[Verse 2]
The perpetual destructive motion machine
Began to chart a course never before seen
Turning raw compassion into fields of plus and minus
One by one we all give in

[Chorus]
The Gray Race shrivels, trapped inside
The world it creates is black and white
The Gray Race shrivels, trapped inside
The world it creates is black and white

[Verse 3]
I'd swear there were times when I was someone else
A person with determination and knowledge of the self
But you flattened me to rubble and now I can see
That I'm just faded negative of the image I used to be
Just a shadow
And that's our dilemma