{ "title": "Blood in the Sand", "lyrics": "[Intro – spoken with ambient hum]\nI stood where silence tore the sky.\nOne breath, one stone, one name—Cain.(Cain) \nOne brother gone. One story remains.\n\n[Verse 1]\nThe wind stood still when the strike was thrown,\nLight pulled back — left dust and bone.\nAbel breathed once, then never again,\nAnd I heard the earth say, ‘This is not the end.’\nI saw blood bloom in the soil like flame,\nIt didn’t scream — it spoke his name.\n\n[Chorus – rising harmony]\nBlood in the sand, where mercy turned,\nA lesson carved, a promise burned.\nThe ground remembers what the hand can’t hide,\nA brother lost, and heaven cried.\nBlood in the sand — the price we pay,\nFor turning love the other way.\n\[instrumental break]n[Verse 2]\nCain stood frozen — not beast, not brave,\nHis breath like thunder beneath the grave.\n‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ he said to none,\nBut the voice of God had already come.\nThe sky was mute, but the soil replied,\n‘You were. You are. Now walk outside.’\n\n[Bridge – stripped down, gospel hum]\nWe chose the fruit, we learned the fire,\nNow every love walks through the mire.\nNot all are wicked, but all will fall,\nAnd still, He calls us — through it all.\n\n[Final Chorus – full choir]\nBlood in the sand — first tear, first trial,\nTruth don’t forget, though we wait awhile.\nBut grace still grows where sorrow stands,\nAnd light still blooms in broken hands.\nBlood in the sand — not end, but start,\nOf what we carry in the human heart.\n\[instrumental break]n]n[Outro – quiet echo, solo voice]\nI saw the mark. I heard the cry.\nI wrote it down so we’d know why.\nBlood in the sand, and still we rise…\nThe fire remains—but so does life." }
