Adam Raised A Cain Lyrics - Live: 1975-85 (3cd) - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

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