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Greg Graffin has explained in many interviews what the song is about: “We set up the world in terms of black and white, and yet we’re gifted with the ability to see shades of gray. But that ability sometimes hinders us. It hinders our progress, it hinders our success, but it makes us more human, and...
[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
The Gray Race was written by Brian Baker & Greg Graffin.
The Gray Race was produced by Ric Ocasek.
Bad Religion released The Gray Race on Tue Feb 27 1996.