EmThe mystery of this moment is holding her tight
Em/CToo close for comfort, not enough to fight
Em/DFor her these city lights
Em/CAre convolutedEm/D shades of gray Em
All that she's been waiting for and everything she reads
Is lost in translation, covered in disease
But she believes equality is hiding in these shades of gray
When will we recognize
Ourselves between the black and white
In calls for higher walls and fewer facts
Don't forget beauty breathes
between the white and black
She plans to tour the universe, touch every life she meets
Though she lives in Minnesota, her mind is overseas
Before she leaves she'll paint
All these picket fences Shades of gray
She'll walk across the desert, swim the bearing straight
Though sometimes met with apathy, with jealousy or hate
Her strength resides in finding
All the kindness in these shades of gray
As these continents collide
And life grows between the black and white
In calls for higher walls and fewer facts
Don't forget beauty lives
between the white and black
When will we stop
and recognize
The lives we live between the black and white
Will our edges wane or must they wax
Can beauty grow between the white and black
Beauty breaths between the white and black
Beauty she's between the white and black