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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:29:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Djembe1846@aol.com
Subject: TAB: Fade to Grey by:Jars of Clay
Fade to Grey by:Jars Of Clay
Capo on 3
intro - Am / Dm / G / Em
I prefer to play these two chords like this
during this song
G (3x0030)
D (xx0230)
Am Dm G
Oh it's not hard to know what you're thinking
Em
when you look down on me now
Your trance of love is seeking to turn this world around
But in my state of blind confussion
no god can pull me out
I see your love is willing
to turn me inside out
E A G D
And then I see you there
E A G
These lonely tears I cry
D
I wish they'd release me
It's in despair that I find faith
summons the night to bow down to day
if ignorance is bliss
won't you save me from myself
(chorus)
E A
And then I see you there
G D
with your arms open wide and you try to embrace me
These lonely tears I cry
they keep me in chains and I wish they'd release me
Cold is the night but colder still
is the heart made of stone turned from clay
And if you follow me
You'll see all the black all the white fade to grey
Bridge - Am / G / F
Fade to grey, yeah
Fade to grey, yeah
(chorus 2x)
Submitted by Paul Neitzel of The Ben Thomas Band
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jimmy Average |
#1 by Jimmy at Feb 26, 1970 at 4:58 PM EST |
| this song is entirely about being lost. the fading to grey is an illustration of right and wrong joining in his eyes, and he can't find the path he ought to be following. he intermixes it with the picture of god's willingness to save him "and then i see you there with your arms open wide" etc. basically, this song covers what it's like to be dazed and confused living your life apart from god, and the plea of having god come correct your ills. | |
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jake Average |
#2 by jake battkoo at Mar 14, 1974 at 5:28 PM EST |
| Aboslutely my fav song by them!! | |
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adam Rhythm Player |
#3 by adam gold at May 21, 1985 at 11:49 PM EST |
| I personally struggled with the idea of black and white fading to gray for a long time though this is also one of my favorites songs from Jars. But at the end what left me satisfied about its meaning is when I lived through the process itself: At the beginning when you give your life to Christ, you start to contrast everything with God. if you become religious, you'll believe everything is black and white. If you truly love Jesus, you'll see that nothing is black or white because our incapacity to perceive things objectively. When you grow as a Christian, you start talking less, judging less, hating less and loving more, even whom doesn't "deserve" to be loved. It's the greatest instance of humbleness: to assert less and to ask more. So I must disagree with Wackdee in that this song (to me at least) does not cover what is like to be living our lifes apart from God, but just the opposite: "When ignorance is bliss" Wow, "SAVE ME FROM MYSELF!" It is not about a person who doesn't know God and gets to know him but about a person who already loves God and finds out that is not a exactly the God he though it was, but recognizes that the real God wants to turn him inside-out, breaking paradigms and humbling our assertions of what is good or bad to the gray of love that before condemning, loves unconditionally. 1 | |
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Jimmy Wanna Be |
#4 by Jimmy Withrow at Feb 24, 1988 at 3:00 PM EST |
| Good observation buzz, and this used to be my all-time favorite Jars track, but now it is Thou Lovely Source of True Delight. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#5 by Ben Law at Apr 26, 1989 at 12:51 AM EST |
| The best darn Jars song perioed!! | |
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Simon Average |
#6 by Simon Donovan at Mar 29, 1993 at 11:20 PM EST |
| i wonder if by 'You'll see all the black, all the white fade to grey' dan is referring to the mingling of Christ's white spirit and our black spirit turning ours to grey? | |
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