Scarecrow Lyrics

From the middle of the stalks, it watches the harvest as seasons change

Watches with a smile, amused by all beneath its plane

All that lonely eyes behold become characters

A theater production of crows, their calls narrating

A desolate performance of the reaping and sowing

That over many moons turned into a field un-growing

And though the legend is unspoken by the town below

The passersby heed the warning of the old scarecrow

Night by night, day by day

Don't go near the old corn maze

Harvest moon intruders fall

Scarecrow leads them through the stalks

Can you hear the raven's song, it scatters the silence of the evening

Keep your home closed, ignore the muffled screaming

Everybody knows, but no one dares mention

Cause no one can forget the dark archaic legend

The chimes heard ringing on a windless night

Carrying a cruel, haunting melody, enveloping the scythe

Of a hollowed eyed straw man, awoken and watching

Devoid of a soul under full moon and stalking the crops

Night by night, day by day

Don't go near the old corn maze

Harvest moon intruders fall

Scarecrow leads them through the stalks

Blood for the harvest, bones for the beast

Free from the post as the host is unleashed

Caught in a place where no god is in earshot

Into the corn and reborn into fear, caught

Blood for the harvest, bones for the beast

Free from the post where the host is unleashed

Caught in a place where no god is in earshot

Into the corn and reborn into fear

Night by night, day by day

Don't go near the old corn maze

Harvest moon intruders fall

Scarecrow leads them through the stalks