Key: G
Introduction:
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In the summer that I was baptized my father held me to his side
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As they put me to the water 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, Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain
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All of the old faces ask you why you're back
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They fit you with position and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac
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In the darkness of your room your mother calls you by your true name
Em C
You remember the faces the places the names
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You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain
Em
Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain
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In the Bible Cain slew Abel and East of Eden he was cast
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You're born into this life paying 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, Adam raised a Cain, Adam raised a Cain, 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 (to fade out)
Thanks to bosshydro for his input.