### **Verse 1** ***My mother called me her first gift*** *But something in me always drifts* *I work the ground, I till the soil* *My hands are rough from endless toil* ### **Verse 2** *Abel tends his flocks with care* *His offering rises in the air* *But mine lies cold upon the ground* *Why am I not the favored one?* ### **Chorus** *Why does rage burn in my chest?* *Why can't I be like the rest?* *The door is open, sin crouches near* *But I can't master all this fear* ### **Verse 3** *"Come to the field," I said that day* *And there I took his life away* *The ground that drank my brother's blood* *Now curses me like a flood* ### **Bridge** *"Where is Abel?" God asks me* *"Am I my brother's keeper?" I plea* *But blood cries out from the ground* *And now I'm cursed, forever bound* ### **Verse 4** *A mark upon me, so none will kill* *But I'm a wanderer against my will* *East of Eden, I must roam* *Forever searching, never home* ### **Final Verse** ***But Abel's faith will not be lost*** ***His righteous blood, it paid the cost*** ***Though I'm the one who took his breath*** ***His voice still speaks beyond his death***
