Shades of Gray (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 that 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 that sure anymore

Shades of grey are all that I find

When I look 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 are all that I find

When I look to the enemy line

Ain't no rainbows shining on me

Shades of grey are the colors I see

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

These Are The Days of Our Lives (Freddie Mercury)

Sometimes I get to feeling

I was back in the old days - long ago

When we were kids, when we were young

Things seemed so perfect, you know?

The days were endless, we were crazy, we were young

The sun was always shining, we just live for fun

Sometimes it seems like lately I just don*t know

The rest of my life's been just a show

Those were the days of our lives

The bad things in life were so few

Those days are all gone now but one thing is true

When I look and I find, I still love you

You can't turn back the clock, you can't turn back the tide

Ain't that a shame? (ain't that a shame?)

I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride

When life was just a game

No use in sitting and thinking on what you did

When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids

Sometimes it seems like lately I just don't know

Better sit back and go with the flow

'Cause these are the days of our lives

They've flown in the swiftness of time

These days are gone but now some things remain

When I look and I find no change

Those were the days of our lives

The bad things in life were so few

Those days are all gone now but one thing is true

When I look and I find, I still love you

I still love you

Still love you

Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal? 

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
A complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Ah! you never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts 
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own 
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Within You Without You

We were talking
About the space between us all
And the people
Who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late when they pass away

We were talking
About the love we all could share

When we find it

To try our best to hold it there

With our love, with our love

We could save the world

If they only knew

Try to realize it's all within yourself
No-one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows within you and without you

We were talking
About the love that's gone so cold
And the people
Who gain the world and lose their soul
They don't know
They can't see
Are you one of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself

Then you may find

Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
When you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you


Nota: Within You Without You é uma canção escrita por George Harrison e lançada no álbum Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band em 1967.

Tapestry (Carole King)

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view
A wondrous, woven magic in bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold

Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky
There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by
He wore a torn and tattered cloth around his leathered hide
And a coat of many colors, yellow-green on either side
He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go

Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand came down empty
Soon within my tapestry along the rutted road
He sat down on a river rock and turned into a toad
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well

As I watched in sorrow, there suddenly appeared
A figure gray and ghostly beneath a flowing beard
In times of deepest darkness, I've seen him dressed in black
Now my tapestry's unraveling--he's come to take me back
He's come to take me back

© 1971 ColGems-EMI Music, Inc. (ASCAP)