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