Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

Album: Breakdown

Scarecrow Lyrics

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 

 

 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 

 

 Scarecrow crying 

 Waiting to die wondering why 

 Scarecrow trying 

 Rising above all in the name of love