Single / Track

Adam Raised a Cain (Live at Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA - 7/1/1978)

Bruce Springsteen•Official Audio (YouTube API)

Lyrics

One, two, three, four

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 standing in the door, I was standing in the rain

With the same hot blood burning in our veins

Adam raised a Cain (yeah)

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

Raised a Cain (yeah)

In the Bible, mama, Cain slew Abel

East of Eden, mama, he was cast

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 (yeah)

Lost but not forgotten from the dark heart of a dream

Raised a Cain (yeah)

Adam raised a Cain (yeah)

Adam raised a Cain