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Showers of your crimson blood |
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Seep into a nation, calling up a flood |
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Of narrow minds, who legislate |
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Thinly veiled intolerance |
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Bigotry and hate |
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But they tortured and burned you |
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They beat you and they tied you |
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They left you cold and breathing |
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For love they crucified you |
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I can't forget, hard as I try |
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This silhouette against the sky |
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Scarecrow crying |
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Waiting to die, wondering why? |
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Scarecrow trying |
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Angels will hold, carry your soul away |
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This was our brother, this was our son |
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This shepherd young and mild, this unassuming one |
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We all gasp this, can't happen here |
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We're all much too civilized |
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Where can these monsters hide? |
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But they are knocking on our front door |
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They're rocking in our cradles |
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They're preaching in our churches |
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And eating at our tables |
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I can't forget hard as I try |
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This silhouette against the sky |
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Scarecrow crying |
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Waiting to die, wondering why? |
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Scarecrow trying |
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Angels will hold carry your soul away |
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I search my soul |
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My heart and in my mind |
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To try and find forgiveness |
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This is someone child |
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With pain unreconciled |
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Filled up with father's hate, mother's neglect |
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I can forgive but I will not forget |
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Scarecrow crying |
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Waitin' to die, wondering why? |
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Scarecrow trying |
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Rising above all in the name of love |
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Love, love, love |
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Rising above all in the name of love |
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Love, love, love |
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Rising above all in the name of love |
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Love, love, love |
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