[Verse 1]
Early soil on their hands
Smoke and crops in the air
One flame climbs like a tower
One dies
Thin and bare
Brother eyes
Dark with hunger
Jealous prayers in his chest
Every “why” like a dagger
Every “why” never rests
[Chorus]
Cain
Abel
Ashes on the altar
Blood on the ground where the promise fell
Echoes of Eden start to falter
When a brother’s love turns into hell
Cain
Abel
Thunder in the garden
Stone in his fist and a hardened heart
Marked by the sky
Never given pardon
Cursed to remember how they tore apart
[Verse 2]
Fields cry under his footsteps
Voice of God in the wind
“Where is he
Where is your brother?”
But the answer is sin
Red rain stains all the furrows
Silent shout in his head
He can’t wash off what he carved there
All his prayers taste like lead
[Chorus]
Cain
Abel
Ashes on the altar
Blood on the ground where the promise fell
Echoes of Eden start to falter
When a brother’s love turns into hell
Cain
Abel
Thunder in the garden
Stone in his fist and a hardened heart
Marked by the sky
Never given pardon
Cursed to remember how they tore apart
[Bridge]
[from whispers to full roar]
Wanderer
Wanderer
Under a sleepless sky (woah)
Every step
Every breath
Asking the same reply
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
The question claws his name
Forever at the border
Of mercy
Grief
And flame
[Chorus]
Cain
Abel
Ashes on the altar
Blood on the ground where the promise fell
Echoes of Eden start to falter
When a brother’s love turns into hell
Cain
Abel
Thunder in the garden
Stone in his fist and a hardened heart
Marked by the sky
Never given pardon
Cursed to remember how they tore apart