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Written and Recorded by Julian Flores

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I won't say I'm not to blame
but give any man my hand
and watch him do the same

I won't say it's all his fault
but if he hadn't come along
who could say I'm in the wrong?
I'd be the only, I'd be the perfect son
 

haven't I been here before? questions for your sakes
where is your brother I adore?

why not ask the shepherd himself?
go ahead ask the perfect son
go ahead ask the favored one
I'm not his keeper, I'm not the perfect son

I'm the first fruits of rebellion, I'm the product of exiles
My mother resents me and my father sees his failure in my eyes
I don't wanna die, but I see murder in their stares
this mark keeps me safe and sound,
alive and alone

take up your house and go into the wild
leave behind that foolish child

now make a life in this land
your brother's blood has fed the dirt
but it's poison for the soiled earth
yeah it's poison for you
oh it's poison for you

Selah


now my skin hangs loose and my bones ache

my house is in ruins I just wanna die

back to the dust with the perfect one

decades of "I'm sorry"

but this mark keeps me safe and sound

alive and alone

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from More Covers and Cain, released June 23, 2013

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