Did they teach you the game
Give you a name
Is it Abel or Cain
Born for pleasure or pain
Is the secret not plain
Ain’t they one and the same
Ain’t our freedom in chains
And our Eden in flames

Do you slave for your check
WIth your blood and your sweat
With a tie round your neck
That hangs like your debt
Do you sit at your desk
And pray under you breath
For relief from regret
While you wait for your death

Are you playing a game that can never be won
Doing a deed that cannot be undone
Are you caught in the fire while you reach for the sun
Is the road to redemption only begun

Don’t you work like a mule
Aren’t you brainwashed in school
To be used like a tool
In the hands of a fool
Does god seem so cruel
And the devil so cool
While they shoot cosmic pool
And you sit on your stool

Are you beat in your head
Deceived and misled
Do they cheat and mistreat you
And leave you for dead
Does it take more than bread
To keep a man fed
Don’t you feast on your dreams
When you sleep in your bed

Are you playing a game that can never be won
Doing a deed that cannot be undone
Are you caught in the fire while you reach for the sun
Is the road to redemption only begun

Did you forsake your kin
To run with the wind
Did you fall for your sin
And then call it your friend
Did you follow it in
When you met with your end
And then shake off your dead skin
And rise up again

Did you count yourself blessed
To be stuck in your mess
To be spirit in flesh
On an eternal quest
Did you better your best
Did you feather your nest
On the wings of forever
Hope the answer is yes

Or you’re playing a game that can never be won
Doing a deed that cannot be undone
Are you caught in the fire while you reach for the sun
Is the road to redemption only begun

Are you madly in love
With god up above
Does desire like a wildfire
Burn in your blood
Are you stuck in the mud
Or swept up in the flood
And when push comes to shove
Will you fly like a dove

Did they teach you the game
Give you a name
Is it Abel or Cain
Born for pleasure or pain
Is the secret not plain
Ain’t they one and the same
Ain’t our freedom in chains
And our eden in flames

Are we playing a game that can never be won
Doing a deed that cannot be undone
Are we caught in the fire while we reach for the sun
Is the road to redemption only begun