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