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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream |
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Adam raised a Cain |