In the straw colored light   In light rapidly changing   On a life rapidly fading   Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?      With a throat smooth as a lamb   Yet dry as a branch not snapping   He throws back his head   And he does not sing a thing mournful      Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   In the straw colored light      He sings a black embrace   And white opals swimming   In a child's leather purse   Have you seen death swimming?   Have you seen death swimming?      With a throat smooth as a lamb   Yet dry as a branch not snapping   He throws back his head   And he does not sing a thing mournful      Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   In the straw colored light      Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   In the straw colored light      He sings of youth enraged   And the burning of Atlanta   And these viral times   And may ribbons streaming   And the straw colored curls are turning      A mother's vain delight   And woe to the sun   And woe to the dawn   And woe to the young   Another hearse is drawn      Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   Have you seen death singin'?   In the straw colored light