Gray Zone from Alterplex by Qqbd

[partially forgotten lyrics]

Welcome back to the Gray Zone
I've been here before
I can be here again

It can be easy being gray
We can always fade to gray
yeah, that's right..
Yes, I think so.
I think I know now
Well, I think I think I know now
Yes, I think so...

It's ok to be gray...
We all go gray eventually
it is not dying
it is not forgetting
it is the twilight years
of all of our lives
We can forget and
with eternal return
we can return back again
to figure out who we are again

I don't know yet
what my neon brand
will look like
when it fades to gray...

...but gray is the time
of uncertainty
so maybe, I am not even
a neon brand
it is ok to not know
everything all the time
including who you are...

(while in) the gray zone,
you are comfy who you are
it makes you wise
it makes you a gray wizard,
YEAH! Well, I'd like to say so

As one gets older,
it does not matter
who you are
or who you are
trying to be
because you can be
anyone...
you can even be yourself...

whoever that is, yeah!
whatever that is, yeah!
whichever that is, yeah!

am I a human?
a corporation?
a galaxy?
some kind of
alterplex personality?

perhaps, I'll never know...
I'm in the gray zone
of uncertainty...
...but, that's alright...
right?

You'll only know
you've updated
when you've become
outdated

Obsolescence today
is the chance of
an eternal return tomorrow

Besides, I can actually be
who I am actually
and I can be really me...
really! Yeah yeah!
Oh oh oh..

Someone told me (of)
a time in 1939...
a cinema premiered
a movie...
that shifted
from black and white
to colour!

Well...
Gray to colour...
Gray was so perpetual,
the colours
looked so
novel and surprising...
yeah, that's what I mean!

The gray zone
is just to
make the colours
surprising, yeah yeah!
to make your mundane dreams
eventually look neon...
yeah yeah yeah!

You can be over the hill
and you can still
brand your will, yeah!

But, this right now...
is not a gray epitaph
entombed story...
no... no, no!
elegy, yeah!

As soon as you realize
the final boss battle
was with yourself
you've overcome
most of the obstacles
and now you embrace
the grayness
of much of your lives

It's not really dying,
It's just a phase or
fad in our lives

I, like you,
are an Alterplex
You don't have to be
always the same
It's ok being gray, yeah!
It's ok not being special
necessarily
but just to be ok
with being gray...

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