It's more about the lyrics for me. I don't know if you can understand the lyrics. But, it goes like this...His grandfather shows him pictures of when he was a child. These picture tell the story of his life during the great depression and during the war (WWII). All these pictures were in black and white and it didn't show the fear. There is a line, "If it looks like we were scared to death, you should have seen it in color."