​Black and White in the Red, White and Blue

My rose-colored glasses have been shattered,
Turns out the world has always been black and white, you see,
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

Don’t sell your immortal soul to the red, white and blue,
Don’t give it to the Reds, or to the Greens.
Good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

“It’s fine, it’s lawful, it’s a good thing, to kill the babies,” they say
“The blood of the multitude of the innocents that is on our hands, it will wash clean.
God is far too loving to punish us, things will remain the way they’ve always been.”
But, sorry, man, good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, bloody shades in between.

Someday very soon, no matter who you are,
No matter what else, in your own own righteousness, in your own power, you try to do,
You’ll run smack into black and white reality,
And your rose-colored glasses will shatter too.
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

God is a God of mercy,
But, you know quite well He’s a righteous God of judgment too.
The whole world, for its sin, stands judged.
No matter the shape or the shade of your banner,
We’re all going to be called to account, except we truly repent,
Even here, in the land of the free and the brave
In the land we love, the home of the red, white and blue,
Because good and evil, right and wrong, are what they are,
With no sophisticated, political, rainbow shades in between.

(c) Tom Hoefling, Nov. 7, 2022