Scarecrow / Perfume

[Verse 1]
Scarecrow
I've been hollowed out
Hung by a pole
Black moths
Swarm around my hands
And draw stars in dirt
But I can’t pile up this soil
And make Adam out of earth

Khafre built the Great Sphinx and declared himself a god
But was he the same as you and I?
Corrupted by life and terrified to die?

[Verse 2]
Funeral in the bleeding rain
Slither up the curb
These same hands that pulled you from the womb
Will drop you back into a hole

Will you visit my stone on your old-man cane and
Arthritic hips just to leave a bouquet?
Will there be a witty remark on my grave, like "we'll be wackin again,"
Or will anyone that ever knew me have already faded into obscurity
Along with all the words and notes I ever sang
In a box in someone's basement lost on cassette

We’re just two of a kind, you and I
Corrupted by life and

[Bridge]
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are
Here we are

Hear us, help us, save us
Our walls surrounded, they blow their awful trumpets
Hear us, help us, save us
Our walls surrounded, they blow their awful trumpets
Hear us, help us, save us
Our walls surrounded, they blow their awful trumpets
Hear me, help me, save me
When they get their hands on my flesh they will hang me
Hear me, hear me, hear me