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.
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Adam Raised A Cain
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Bruce Springsteen |