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