Shades of Gray:       Mountain tops and red, red clouds Aflame with flaring gold Silhouetted in the eastern sky like a god The trees now blue under the dusk... The cooling flood of evening shade The lights recede, the sounds subdue Predators emerge from their caves Grayness holds my mind at stake And the lake's golden mirror's dim The last rays fall into darker shade The night coils around the day Shadows turn the light into the shades of gray The sun bades the world farewell The queen of the night her attire aglow Before her beauty I, too bow These nights I should fear These lights I should not follow This road to nowhere leads I wander around in circles Grayness holds my mind at stake And the lake's golden mirror's dim The last rays fall into darker shade The night coils around the day Shadows turn the light into the shades of gray The sun bades the world farewell The lights recede The sounds subdue Predators emerge from their caves Grayness holds my mind at stake And the lake's golden mirror's dim The last rays fall into darker shade The night coils around the day Shadows turn the light into the shades of gray The sun bades the world farewell It controls my mind ...And the lake's golden mirror's dim The last rays fall into the darker shade The night chokes the day Shadows turn the light into the shades of gray The sun bades the world farewell