Scarecrow Lyrics - Breakdown - Melissa Etheridge

Showers of your crimson blood 

Seep into a nation calling up a flood 

Of narrow minds who legislate 

Thinly veiled intolerance 

Bigotry and hate 

But they tortured and burned you 

They beat you and they tied you 

They left you cold and breathing 

For love they crucified you 

I can't forget hard as I try 

This silhouette against the sky 

Scarecrow crying 

Waiting to die wondering why 

Scarecrow trying 

Angels will hold carry your soul away 

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This was our brother 

This was our son 

This shepherd young and mild 

This unassuming one 

We all gasp this can't happen here 

We're all much too civilized 

Where can these monsters hide 

But they are knocking on our front door 

They're rocking in our cradles 

They're preaching in our churches 

And eating at our tables 

I search my soul 

My heart and in my mind 

To try and find forgiveness 

This is someone child 

With pain unreconciled 

Filled up with father's hate 

Mother's neglect 

I can forgive But I will not forget 

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Scarecrow crying 

Waiting to die wondering why 

Scarecrow trying 

Rising above all in the name of love