Exemption Blues

Trees all talkin' 'neath a sky full of wind

Your lungs are workin' but they can't take it in

Barometric pressure droppin' so low

Storm on the horizon you got nowhere to go

Did you think you think you were exempt

Did you think you think you were exempt

No rest for the reaper got a quota so high

Upraised bony finger when you wave goodbye

One flies into a mountain, one's heart just stops

Cancer takes another, one's shot by a cop

Did you think you think you were exempt

Did you think you think you were exempt

Young girl dancin' 'neath the trembling leaves

Funny how it changes so momentarily

Hear the dogs all barkin' as the time flies by

As the leaves come fallin' you can laugh till you cry

Did you think you think you were exempt

Did you think you think you were exempt

One stark constellation stretched on a tree

Winter is comin', comin' permanently

Gabriel's trumpet always played too soon

Dance with a young girl, they're playin' your tune

Did you think you think you were exempt

Did you think you think you were exempt