Exception Lyrics

The five and dime

Got Mexican Jumping Beans

And I bought some

And I liked them

And I bought some more

And I stole some

And I bought and stole

Even more

I dissected them

And I found the worm

And then I got bored

And I boiled them all

I bought and stole

And dissected

And boiled them all

At school we sold

Cases of oranges

As a fundraiser for grade five camp

I ate cases and cases

Of oranges

I ate so many oranges

I had orange peels

Under my fingernails

And my fingernails were all pulled back

From peeling all those oranges

And I was peeing all the time

Our cabin leader

Was a teenager

Who had a knife on his leather belt

And the leather of the knife cover

Didn't fully cover

The knife's tip

So when he wrestled with us

Fifth graders

All over the cabin's floor

He scratched us all

And the school staff

Kept the knife for the rest of trip

Everyone got stung by the

Stinging nettles

Growing beside our cabin

But I pretended not to feel a thing

I even stepped back into them

Laughing

While the skin bubbled up

Up and down my legs

Just like the skin bubbling up

Up and down everyone else's legs

Yeah, the skin was bubbling up

Up and down my legs

Just like the skin bubbling up

Up and down everyone else's legs

My teacher asked me

If I'd be alright being

In a cabin with my friend Joe

Even though most kids

Were put in cabins

With kids that they didn't know

Unless he could be in a cabin with me

My teacher told me

Joe refused to go

Poor Joe

When he froze in front of class

During show and tell

And ran out crying

My teacher let me run after him

My cabin played

Truth or dare

I can't remember if

I initiated it

But it wouldn't surprise me

If I had

I chose truth

And was asked if I'd had

Sex with a girl

And when it came round to me again

Joe asked who the girl

Was

I protested that truth or dare

Was about yes or no, not

Who

But they took a vote

And I was out-voted

So I answered

With the truth

No one else said

They'd had sex with a girl

When they were asked to tell the truth

Not even the teenager who had

Scarred us all

With his knife

On the bus trip

Back down the mountain

I was sitting next to Joe

With my eyes closed

Drifting in and out of sleep

When I heard him tell someone

That I'd said

I'd had sex with a girl

And, like Joe, they asked which girl

I'd had sex with

And

He told them

There were giggles everywhere

The girl I'd played sex games with

Was on

The bus too

I knew there was no chance

That the news

Wouldn't get back

To her

I kept my eyes closed

Pretending to sleep

Until I was the last person on the bus

And my teacher came to

Wake me up

Yeah, my teacher came to

Wake me up

I spotted Joe in the bike racks

I waited until no one was looking

I pinched the back of his neck

To incapacitate him

And then I punched him in the gut

As hard as I could

He didn't yell for help

He didn't tell on me

He just

Slinked away

He and his divorced mother

Were moving back to England

That summer

Anyway

I didn't just cross him out of my phone book

Like most people

I cut him out

And burned him

And never saw him again