MARK OF CAIN

I wear your face like a mark of Cain
Is my name still there every time you pray
Do you like the ways of the soul you saved
It can only behave like the son you raised
What'd the neighbors say
Did your sisters bray
Get the ass' jaw when my record plays
From the salad days up to Adam's shame
When you use my name does it sting the same

Once I was blind, now I can see
I looked in your eyes and I couldn't find me
I'd paid the price for my liberty
Now I don't know who I'm supposed to be
I'll know my lord when I know myself
I looked in your eyes and I saw someone else
I'm the echo of somebody else's yell
The answer to somebody else's spell

Once I was blind, now I can see
I looked in your eyes and I couldn't find me
I'd paid the price for my liberty
Now I don't know who I'm supposed to be
I'll know my lord when I know myself
I looked in your eyes and I saw someone else
I'm the echo of somebody else's yell
The answer to somebody else's spell

You only taught me the best you knew
Now I carry that in the things I do
You'd become your dad when your patience blew
Now when I get mad I turn into you
The woman wielding a comb or shoe
At a dictatorial five foot two
Watch our branches break from that anger's weight
I'm the rotting fruit of your poison root

Once I was blind, now I can see
I looked in your eyes and I couldn't find me
I'd paid the price for my liberty
Now I don't know who I'm supposed to be
I'll know my lord when I know myself
I looked in your eyes and I saw someone else
I'm the echo of somebody else's yell
The answer to somebody else's spell

I wear your face like a mark of Cain
In your image baked is a child of clay
One you threw away despite labor pains
Because the monster made would bring little fame
The worst of our family paupers' grave
Shot in the world like a round astray
Am I the son of what Friday gave
Or the humble slave to your worst mistakes