Shades of gray
A category you can't quite place
Like a familiar smile on a nameless face
Songs that cut right to the chase
In the scenes of we're about to play
Shades of gray

A situation that's hard to peg
Like a cross country runner with a wooden leg
Chocolate syrup on a scrambled egg
(Uwgh)
That's shades of gray

A beautiful woman with no self esteem
A first rate coach with a losing team
Somewhere between two extremes
There's a musical revue with a big broad theme
A world without a sense of right and wrong
Through the eyes of characters who break into song
You thought you knew but you got it wrong
That's shades of gray

It's cliche
But that's okay
It's original in a post modern way
Shades of gray
Shades of gray
Like a spending your Christmas holiday with a southern baptist who's also gay
Not to mention in the KKK
Shades of Gray!