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 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      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   Waitin' to die, wondering why?   Scarecrow trying      Rising above all in the name of love   Love, love, love   Rising above all in the name of love   Love, love, love   Rising above all in the name of love   Love, love, love   ...