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In the summer that I was baptized, |
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My father held me to his side, |
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As they put me to the water, |
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He said how on that day I cried. |
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We were prisoners of love, a love in chains, |
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He was standin' in the door, I was standin' in the rain, |
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with the same hot blood burning in our veins, |
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Adam raised a Cain.All of the old faces, |
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Ask you why you're back, |
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They fit you with position, |
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And the keys to your daddy's Cadillac, |
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In the darkness of your room, |
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Your mother calls you by your true name, |
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You remember the faces, the places, the names, |
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You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain, |
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Adam raised a Cain.In the Bible Cain slew Abel |
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And East of Eden he was cast, |
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You're born into this life paying, |
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for the sins of somebody else's past, |
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Daddy worked his whole life, for nothing but the pain, |
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Now he walks these empty rooms, looking for something to blame, |
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You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames, |
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Adam raised a Cain.Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream, |
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Adam raised a Cain |
